On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Tom Hayward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last week for work I built a development environment for internal > distribution. Rather than using a virtual machine, I built a > customized Ubuntu distribution (live-cd with install option). This > turned out to be really easy (albeit probably more difficult than > building a .deb, and much less bandwidth-efficient). I just followed > this instructions on the Ubuntu wiki. This would be a pretty easy way > to distribute Xastir packaged with an OS. Because it's based on > Ubuntu, VMware still recognizes it and is able to use the "easy > install" option, if that's how you choose to use it. The .iso could > also be used for a xastir live-cd or normal Ubuntu installation on > dedicated hardware. That's already been done with Xastir - most recently with the iso image dated 5-30-2010 (Ubuntu 10.04). That was recent enough to capture the X server workaround, but to early for the OSM and gpsd enhancements. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Downloads It's posted at UAH, Ireland, and on my server. I also used the procedure from the Ubuntu wiki. I thought about creating an updated iso but figured I'd wait until things settled a bit. There was a flurry of CVS changes there for a while. Deb packages are definitely more bandwidth (and disk space) efficient than distributing either live/install images or virtual machines. Of course, debs only benefit Debian/Ubuntu users. Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
