On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Besides the obvious indications that they pre-test the hw they'll run >> it on, and the "shut down SoaS carefully" recommendation, I drafted a >> plan for them to make Blueberry more like OLPC's F11: > > Mhm, I'm not entirely sure I understand why this would be needed.
Mainly so that they can see "switch to gnome", play with gnomeland (and switch back ;-) ). Some of them are *very* first-time computer users. > The major issue you'll run into here is that the XO images contain a number > of non-Fedora repositories. So attempting to install the packages these > repos provide will just fail on SoaS, unless you add them manually. > Also, some of the packages might affect how SoaS works on "normal" machines > (thinking of olpc-utils here). Good points. Not so easy then. > I think the olpc-switch-desktop package in Fedora should do the trick. > However, I heard some time ago (might be wrong, though) that it was > dependent on olpc-dm, which is in the olpc-utils package and contains the > hardcoded olpc username. Ah, pain all around :-/ > This is certainly a good step to do. I'm not so sure about SSH keys and > stuff, which might be another thing you don't necessarily want to copy all > over. This is for a very limited use case. Of course, all of these "hosts" will end up with identical ssh host identity keys, but it's really low pri. > Yeah... well, I'd advise to try a line like this on a modified and rebuilt > image: livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb xxx /dev/sr0 /dev/sdc1 That requires to build a new iso with the build toolchain. The local team is getting up to speed with Fedora, XOs and a ton of other things, in a super-short time. > It might work. But it could very well break. I'm still curious about the > reasoning behind adding all these olpc-* packages. Instead, you might want > to consider just adding the @gnome-desktop group and the olpc-switch-desktop "Reasoning" might be too much to apply to a draft plan. What your propose is better.. OTOH, I don't know if what OLPC does is @gnome-desktop, maybe it's a subset, so I'd have to hunt that list down. > I guess it's really about time to think about how to make the customization > process easier. Revisor makes it reasonably easy, and even has a gui. Don't know if it works on "runnable" isos. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
