OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Jose Prous
Hello, I'm José Prous from Paraguay Educa. I'm trying compile an OLPC build for the XO 1.75. I followed the instructions in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder I used os-builder from the git source in the commit 252aa2a3c2859e2677e05675f7eaff2b5b430e54 and using the config file

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jose Prous josepr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm José Prous from Paraguay Educa. I'm trying compile an OLPC build for the XO 1.75. I followed the instructions in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder What is your build host machine? Is it an XO-1.75, or

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Jose Prous
Yes it's a x86 machine, I guess that is the problem. Thanks. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jose Prous josepr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm José Prous from Paraguay Educa. I'm trying compile an OLPC build

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem downloading a lease.sig file on an XO

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: 1. Is there a security problem/concern with having our project's lease.sig file publicly available? (we only generate activations for non-stolen XOs) Should be ok, as long as you're comfortable with the validity

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jose Prous josepr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it's a x86 machine, I guess that is the problem. Thanks. Glad that we found the reason. We should add an explicit check in OOB that gives you a more useful error msg. Compared with x86 builders, an XO-1.75 is fairly

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem downloading a lease.sig file on an XO

2012-09-13 Thread Juan Cubillo
I agree that this is not the best behavior, especially if Browse can potentially determine the original extension while downloading. If your XO images have the GNOME desktop in them, using the web browser included for GNOME (Firefox or Epiphany) to download the file to USB should not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem downloading a lease.sig file on an XO

2012-09-13 Thread Hal Murray
If your XO images have the GNOME desktop in them, using the web browser included for GNOME (Firefox or Epiphany) to download the file to USB should not alter the file name. Just make sure the kids know how to eject the USB stick when they are done. This is probably what I'm going to do. The

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread John Gilmore
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jose Prous josepr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it's a x86 machine, I guess that is the problem. Thanks. Glad that we found the reason. We should add an explicit check in OOB that gives you a more useful error msg. Instead, you should fix OOB so it works to

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Instead, you should fix OOB so it works to cross-compile. Unfortunately, OOB is just a nice wrapper around anaconda and rpm. You cannot cross-build because - The anaconda toolchain does not have a good separation of environment

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: TBH, I have never seen any OS image builder / composer in the Linux world that works cross platform. which isn't to say that we don't make extensive use of cross-compiling in development. i think all of our dev kernels are cross-compiled, and probably most of us use

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Abente
Hi Martin: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Instead, you should fix OOB so it works to cross-compile. Unfortunately, OOB is just a nice wrapper around anaconda and rpm. You cannot

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Have anyone actually tried to emulate? Not that I know. But I would expect it to be ~10x slower than on an XO-1.75. And better hw should be available in the coming months, and affordable ($200). m --

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Abente
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Have anyone actually tried to emulate? Not that I know. But I would expect it to be ~10x slower than on an XO-1.75. And better hw

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 22:12 -0400, Martin Abente wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Have anyone actually tried to emulate?

Re: OLPC build creation failed

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Abente
Thats not so bad (relatively). Thanks for the info Jerry! On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 22:12 -0400, Martin Abente wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012