On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2 > test release on my XO-1 to take it for a spin. Very nice. Unlike SoaS1 > it boots again on my XO-1 :-) YAY! > > Now some quick feedback to help improve it. > > On the XO release at least if you remove the livecd-tools (which will > in turn remove syslinux) the perl dependency will be removed saving > about 35 meg. I believe the point of the livecd-tools is to allow the > duplication of usb keys which wouldn't work on the XO variant anyway. > I'm working to get the syslinux dependence on perl split out into a > sub package upstream. > > Also if you explicitly add 'ssmtp' or remove the requirement of cronie > you'll lose sendmail in turn saving a couple more meg and the startup > of a daemon. > > To fix the camera all you should need to add is > 'gstreamer-plugins-good' and that should pull in all that's needed to > get that to work (no idea why you've excluded that anyway :-) ) > > There's also an issue with the 'olpc' repository URL. Should probably > move it to somewhere other than dsd's home dir. > > It seems also the auto import of rpm keys is broken for some reason > and hence I can't pull in the new Fedora-12 signing key which has > screwed the updates. I presume that's due to hacked > fedora/generic-release rpm. Can someone confirm? > > I'll have more of a look over the next couple of days if I get a > chance, a quick look showed quite a few spots where the included > packages can be reduced.
Oh and to easily test the camera from the command line using gstreamer this simple pipeline works for me on the XO to take a photo. gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=foo.png Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
