Re: Firmware update

[Paul Fox]

c. scott ananian wrote:
 > 
 > At one point Michael and I also had a side-loading mechanism
 > implemented -- if you put your target RPMs in some directory in
 > /home/olpc -- I think it was ~/.rpms -- then they'd automatically get
 > re-installed after olpc-update.  That was (at the time) the preferred
 > mechanism for "adding a few packages" persistently to a build.
 > 
 > Assuming this mechanism hasn't code-rotted, this is a nice
 > intermediate step: less work than rolling an entire new build, and
 > relatively easy to accomodate new "upstream" builds without
 > disruption.

see #6432, and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yum#Making_persistent_changes

i believe the location was/is /home/olpc/.custom/rpms, but i haven't
tried using it in a very long time.

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boot-animation F11 for XO-1

[Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro]

saludos


he estado aciendo algunas pruevas cambiando las animacion de mi XO-1, he
leido las instrucciones

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tweaking_the_boot_animation

y he descargado el paquete olpc-bootanim-2.9 la cual entre en la carpeta
"images" y dentro de ahi se encuentra los frame en formato .png la cual he
modificado esta imagenes para crear una nueva animacion en el sistema de
booteo de la XO.

ahora una vez que ya he modificado los frame00.png, frame01.png, y asi
sucesibamente ahora procedi a correr el scrips ppmto565.py y me crear los
.png a formato .565

ahora cuando ya tengo los 25 frame.565 ya modificado reemplazo los frame de
mi XO que estan en /usr/share/boot-anim/ por los que ya he modificado y
convertido.

y reinicio la XO y me funciona pero en la version de sugar 802

ahora que actualize mi XO a la os852 esta ya viene con F11 por lo que revise
el directorio donde guarda los achivos de animacion y solo aparecen tres
archivos que son delta, frame00.565 y ul_warning.565

ahora como hago para obtener la misma animacion que hice en la version 802
en esta os852 ???

como logro este resultado???




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Fwd: boot-animation F11 for XO-1

[Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro]

hi

these days, I've been doing some testing with my XO with the new version of
F11 for XO-1 and noticed that the frame25.565 are no longer in the directory

/usr/share/boot-anim/frame25.565

where I can find the boot-frame animation of F11 for XO-1 frame format or
png?



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boot-animation F11 for XO-1

[Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro]

hi

these days, I've been doing some testing with my XO with the new version of
F11 for XO-1 and noticed that the frame25.565 are no longer in the directory

/usr/share/boot-anim/frame25.565

where I can find the boot-frame animation of F11 for XO-1 frame format or
png?



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Re: Firmware update

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Daniel Drake  wrote:
> On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon  wrote:
>> Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the
>> oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware?  I'm certainly happy doing
>> just safe builds for the core.
>
> To avoid all corner cases it the recommendation really needs to be 
> "everything"
> In reality, you'll probably get away with it, especially because
> you're only really working with added packages in your deployment (not
> upgrading ones that are already installed).
>
> Some of the resultant problems will also not affect small deployments
> like yours. For example, one side effect is that olpc-update pristine
> (efficient) updates stop working as soon as you make any filesystem
> modifications like this. Another side effect is that your
> custom-installed packages will magically disappear after an
> olpc-update upgrade (which in a real deployment would happen without
> you even knowing).
>
> But in a small deployment like yours, touching each laptop for updates
> is probably more sensible than the knowledge and infrastructure
> investment needed for hands-off olpc-update, so you aren't affected.
>
>> However, as part of our 'refresh' stick when we wipe and install a new
>> signed build, we generally also include the necessary rpm's for cheese and a
>> couple of other utilities that are locally installed from the USB stick
>> using a bash script; or, for the Vernier software dependencies, the
>> dependent rpm's are installed by means of a python script.  However, they
>> are rpm's and they are downloaded onto the stick (the first time) using yum,
>> and they are then installed from the stick using --localinstall from the
>> stick.
>
> You probably won't see any problem with this collection of changes.
> Nevertheless, at the SF summit I started showing Adam the "correct"
> way to do this: building a custom OS image with those customizations
> already included. We didn't have time to completely finish it, but he
> picked it up quickly and could probably finish it with a little effort
> (and perhaps a couple of mails to this list).

At one point Michael and I also had a side-loading mechanism
implemented -- if you put your target RPMs in some directory in
/home/olpc -- I think it was ~/.rpms -- then they'd automatically get
re-installed after olpc-update.  That was (at the time) the preferred
mechanism for "adding a few packages" persistently to a build.

Assuming this mechanism hasn't code-rotted, this is a nice
intermediate step: less work than rolling an entire new build, and
relatively easy to accomodate new "upstream" builds without
disruption.
  --scott

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Re: [Server-devel] Assistance with Setting up the School Server

[HALL,Brian C]

One more thing how do i connect to the School Server from a non XO machine? 
Like from a regular laptop or PC.



Regards,
Brian Hall

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To: Sameer Verma
Cc: ANTOINE,Alexander I; server-de...@lists.laptop.org; MILLER,Kevin J
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Assistance with Setting up the School Server

Sameer,

Thanks  i have now set the set the domain name. Its for a basic school hence i 
use the name providence.org

The is only one network card on the server. I realise that we may  have to 
acquire an external wireless card/adapter  in order for the XO's to communicate 
 with the server. Is there a recommended external wireless card/adapter that 
you can recommend?



Thanks in advance,
Brian

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Sent: 24 November 2010 17:39
To: HALL,Brian C
Cc: server-de...@lists.laptop.org; ANTOINE,Alexander I; MILLER,Kevin J
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Assistance with Setting up the School Server

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, HALL,Brian C
 wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>
>
>
>
> Iam new to setting up the school server. So far I have downloaded and
> installed the ISO unto a dell optiplex  240.  It picks up the eth0 but iam
> not sure what next to do in order for it  to work. What else should I do? I
> remember seeing someone being able to access the school server from another
> machine and it wasn’t an XO. I also know that apache is running but iam not
> able to connect to it.
>
>
>
>
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Brian Hall
>
> Systems Administrator
>
> Mona School Of Business
>
> University Of The West Indies
>
> Mona
>
> Kingston 7
>
> Phone # 977-6035 ext  362
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Hi Brian,
How many network cards do you have on this machine? Will the XS be
talking to the Internet?
The next step is to run the config. Look at domain_config on this
page: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Setting_hostname_and_domain

cheers,
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Re: [Server-devel] Assistance with Setting up the School Server

[HALL,Brian C]

Sameer,

Thanks  i have now set the set the domain name. Its for a basic school hence i 
use the name providence.org

The is only one network card on the server. I realise that we may  have to 
acquire an external wireless card/adapter  in order for the XO's to communicate 
 with the server. Is there a recommended external wireless card/adapter that 
you can recommend?



Thanks in advance,
Brian

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[sve...@sfsu.edu]
Sent: 24 November 2010 17:39
To: HALL,Brian C
Cc: server-de...@lists.laptop.org; ANTOINE,Alexander I; MILLER,Kevin J
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Assistance with Setting up the School Server

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, HALL,Brian C
 wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>
>
>
>
> Iam new to setting up the school server. So far I have downloaded and
> installed the ISO unto a dell optiplex  240.  It picks up the eth0 but iam
> not sure what next to do in order for it  to work. What else should I do? I
> remember seeing someone being able to access the school server from another
> machine and it wasn’t an XO. I also know that apache is running but iam not
> able to connect to it.
>
>
>
>
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Brian Hall
>
> Systems Administrator
>
> Mona School Of Business
>
> University Of The West Indies
>
> Mona
>
> Kingston 7
>
> Phone # 977-6035 ext  362
>
>
>
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Hi Brian,
How many network cards do you have on this machine? Will the XS be
talking to the Internet?
The next step is to run the config. Look at domain_config on this
page: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Setting_hostname_and_domain

cheers,
Sameer
--
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Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Campus Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
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http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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Re: Firmware update -> os-builder

[Daniel Drake]

On 25 November 2010 09:09, Jerry Vonau  wrote:
> Any chance of syncing koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.2 or maybe
> koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.3 to the final updates from Fedora?

Probably not. It's a bit late in the game and there are disk space issues.

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F14 kernel sources

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

Kernel sources for F14 XO1/1.5 builds are not in 
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/f14-xo1[.5]/
Are there somewhere else?
Thx


  
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Re: Firmware update -> os-builder

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:17 +, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 25 November 2010 04:11, Jerry Vonau  wrote:
> > Having os-builder required to have net access in ksmain.50.repos.py is
> > less than ideal for remote image creation. Once the cache is downloaded
> > could we not just run createrepo on the cache and point os-builder to
> > the local url instead of going out to the net all the time? something
> > like:
> >
> > if use_cache:
> >url = "file:///%s/imgcreate/%s" %(ooblib.cachedir, name)
> >else:
> >url = "http://mock.laptop.org/repos/%s"; % name
> >
> > Attached is a rough diff of what I have in mind.
> 
> That would be nice (as a configurable option - not the default). Feel
> free to develop this further... ;)
> 
Gee how did I know that was going to be the answer... ;) Don't think it
could be a default, you'd have to create the cache first.

> > On a side note both 10.1.2 and 10.1.3 share the the same olpc repo via 
> > os-builder
> > (http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/), that makes it harder to tell the 
> > break
> > between the two.  Now it's impossible to re-spin os852 without hard-coding 
> > the
> > rpm versions elsewhere in os-builder. Just a thought.
> 
> Look closer.  10.1.2 uses frozen repos instead of the ones on xs-dev.
> You can still replicate it exactly.

Yup your right, sorry my mistake.   

> 10.1.3 will also switch to frozen repos soon.
> 

Any chance of syncing koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.2 or maybe
koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.3 to the final updates from Fedora?

Jerry




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Re: Firmware update -> os-builder

[Daniel Drake]

On 25 November 2010 04:11, Jerry Vonau  wrote:
> Having os-builder required to have net access in ksmain.50.repos.py is
> less than ideal for remote image creation. Once the cache is downloaded
> could we not just run createrepo on the cache and point os-builder to
> the local url instead of going out to the net all the time? something
> like:
>
> if use_cache:
>            url = "file:///%s/imgcreate/%s" %(ooblib.cachedir, name)
>        else:
>            url = "http://mock.laptop.org/repos/%s"; % name
>
> Attached is a rough diff of what I have in mind.

That would be nice (as a configurable option - not the default). Feel
free to develop this further... ;)

> On a side note both 10.1.2 and 10.1.3 share the the same olpc repo via 
> os-builder
> (http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/), that makes it harder to tell the break
> between the two.  Now it's impossible to re-spin os852 without hard-coding the
> rpm versions elsewhere in os-builder. Just a thought.

Look closer.  10.1.2 uses frozen repos instead of the ones on xs-dev.
You can still replicate it exactly.
10.1.3 will also switch to frozen repos soon.

Daniel
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