RPM trees frozen for XO-1.5 software release

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, This probably only applies for a couple of days while we tie up development for our initial XO-1.5 software release: RPM trees are now frozen as of os56 contents - including public_rpms If you've fixed something important and you'd like a new/updated package included in the build, assign

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote: Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote: Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is something more fundamentally broken here. 5000

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Robinson
Furthermore, the App Store has strong incentives to update and release new software constantly.  Each new app is placed into a 'new app' view that encourages installation of new apps.  It extends their marketing beyond keyterm search and apple's ranking/voting system (which has problems with

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote: Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth

runin runs X before it has been configured

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Richard, I just tried to do a factory-simulation of your runin code. It failed because during boot when it launched X, the screen went a funny and then everything froze. I think this is because your script is launching X before X has been configured. Ordinarily, X is configured by the

Re: runin runs X before it has been configured

2009-12-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 12/10/2009 11:41 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi Richard, I just tried to do a factory-simulation of your runin code. It failed because during boot when it launched X, the screen went a funny and then everything froze. The last 24 hours I've added a lot of changes. Don't bother with a test

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:13:33PM -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote: In the sugar environment we have the great resource of activities.sugarlabs.org that children can browse through to add new activities. However, on the Gnome side of things we only have the yum terminal commands. While I

New F11 for XO-1.5 build 57

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os57 Compressed image size: 695.87mb (+4.41mb since build 56) Description of changes in this build: * Now building from a static repo, so only changes we push are included. * Camera resume bug is fixed! (#9809) * OHM now

Re: [Server-devel] specs for virtual machines

2009-12-10 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Hrmm, an interesting proposal. I'd be happy to talk to them. This of course would require a ~100% connectivity on site which may be more useful for SOAS deployment's but nonetheless it may be of some interest to OLPC deployments. Reuben On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: I