2009/4/8 John Gilmore :
> Since OLPC's "upstream" is both Linus's kernel releases, and Fedora's
> distributions, there are two upstream places to push OLPC's hardware
> support patches to. Have we only been trying to get them into one of
> those places (Linus's)?
>
> The F11 kernel currently carri
> Now I see what's going on. Clueless people are crashing around in the
> bug database, "helping" developers by hassling users. Then if you
> don't answer the idiots, 30 days later they close out your bug report
> as "CLOSED:INSUFFICIENT_DATA". Instead of a bridge, they seem to be
> more of a ba
> II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us
> how to reproduce the problem". I have no desire whatsoever to try
Mikus unfortunately plays a troll on the Internet. He probably isn't
one in real life, but the way he uses the XO is extremely unusual, so
he views the XO
>> But now, it appears that F11 won't be able to suspend on OLPC,
>> which makes it almost useless for laptop use (as opposed to
>> developer use when the laptop is sitting on a desk with permanent
>> AC power).
>
> Sure, but you can install a different kernel on your F11 image, su
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:17:09PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages ?
>
> Because rawhide is a daily moving development target.
Aren't you both right? The builds contain the latest rawhide packages
as of the image creatio
Given everything discussed so far, is it worth considering an F11-OLPC
branch, with the intent of merging with F12?
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Hi,
> So is that trying to get them into 2.6.30?
Yes, that would be ideal.
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Hi Chris,
> > It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to
> > get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let
> > them deal with Rainbow.
>
> Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds.
>
> > Some of the initscript changes related to the bizar
Paul,
> > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are
> > required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and
> > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But it's
> > never easy.
> >
> > It is my hope that people continu
Hi John,
> It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to
> get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let
> them deal with Rainbow.
Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds.
> Some of the initscript changes related to the bizarre idea o
john wrote:
> It looks like perhaps the kernel changes have slipped right through
> the F11 schedule. Is it seriously likely that the F11 kernel
for the record, this was a conscious decision. everyone knew there
wouldn't be time to get XO-specific changes upstream, and back to
fedora, before F
> The main and probably most major issues outstanding are the
> kernel/boot process - so
> kernel/initscripts/olpcrd/initscripts/upstart/rainbow collection of
> stuff of which I have no real idea about. Updates?
It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to
get maintainer
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote:
> peter, and greg --
>
> greg wrote:
> > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are
> > required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and
> > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward
peter, and greg --
greg wrote:
> Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are
> required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and
> develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But it's
> never easy.
>
> It is my hope th
> > > II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us how
> to
> > > reproduce the problem". I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe
> how
> > > to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its
> > > instructions for seeing if it works. I have even
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote:
> as mikus said, his applications all worked before. this is a
> regression, plain an simple, *with respect to the previous XO releases*.
> now, to the extent that fedora doesn't really care about any specific
> piece of hardware, especially one whic
peter wrote:
> > II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us how to
> > reproduce the problem". I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe how
> > to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its
> > instructions for seeing if it works. I have even
>> Are there bugzilla reports for these?
>
> I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla.
> 'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some; '461806' picks up some. But let
> me emphasize once again - bugzilla appears to be aimed at the problems of
> developers (and isn't opti
>> If we are talking about 9.1.0, it would be nice if 'sound' and
>> 'moving pictures' worked in F-11 on the XO. Currently they don't.
>
> Are there bugzilla reports for these?
I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on
bugzilla. 'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some;
>> > Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages
>> > ?
>>
>> Because rawhide is a daily moving development target.
>
> Aren't you both right? The builds contain the latest rawhide packages
> as of the image creation date, right? Thus if it's no longer the
> instan
> My biggest current question is: When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update'
> (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest ~cjb/rawhide-xo .img), it
> tells me that there are more than 220 packages at the rawhide repositories
> that are at a more recent version level than those provided by th
> I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it
> would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move
> towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next.
My biggest current question is: When on my XO I enter 'yum
check-update' (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest
~
Hi All,
I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it
would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move
towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next.
I've been keeping the wiki page up to date as I go along and filling
in more details as I find out about them. The fixed list i
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