Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging
For deployments that eschew servers, a caching proxy won't help. But on the other hand, sharing the updates across a bunch of XOs might be possible using a torrent-like implementation. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging
> We use yum to provide automatic updates to our XOs in the field, and > we must be mindful that large RPMs can have an impact on the school's > Internet connection. If 400 XOs need to download a ~800KB Sugar RPM, > that's 320MB being downloaded, potentially at the same time. Isn't there a cacheing yum proxy? Yes, it turns out: http://terrarum.net/administration/caching-rpms-with-pkg-cacher.html [Beware the install advice in that page. It tells you to set gpgcheck=0 to install their packages -- rather than telling you where to get a public key -- and it neglects to tell you to restore gpgcheck=1 after you install pkg-cacher.] Supposedly apt-cache can do it as well, though I don't see a step-by-step guide: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482949 Once one of your local machines is running the proxy, then you point each of the XOs to the proxy as well as to the standard RPM repos. I think yum is smart enough to download it from the first repo that offers it, which means that if your cache is responding, it'll download packages from there. (Warning: I haven't done this myself.) John ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging
On 30 July 2012 23:26, Jerry Vonau wrote: > The idea works well for users of Dextrose where OLPC-AU as a deployment > could omit features that are still under development and not show the > icon the control-panel at all. I'm not asking for anything to be > removed, just packaged and made available separately. > > Once the spec file is altered OOB users would state which of the applets > to install or substitute their own. The one rub would be having to alter > the sugar-desktop group definition available from fedora's repos. > > Just trying to ease the burden on some of us deployments. This feature would make maintenance of code and updates in the field much easier for us. As a deployment, we would like the choice of which CP applets to include, or even make substitutions if need be. We don't want to be making unnecessary patches or building our own Sugar RPM just for this. That would in effect be a fork of Sugar and become a maintenance burden for us. We use yum to provide automatic updates to our XOs in the field, and we must be mindful that large RPMs can have an impact on the school's Internet connection. If 400 XOs need to download a ~800KB Sugar RPM, that's 320MB being downloaded, potentially at the same time. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Engadget post on XO Touch
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Mike Lee wrote: > Here's a cool demo of the Neonode multitouch frame: > http://www.slashgear.com/neonode-3d-touch-headed-to-tablets-and-phones-hands-on-28215933/ > Not only multi-touch, but also entry direction and tilt. For a dollar! Not all devices using Neonode zForce do tilt, distance, etc. The Kindle Touch, which I really like, has Neonode IR touch. cheers, martin -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
