Maybe we can find a time in the next few days to all meet on IRC to discuss this? CC'ng Bernie as he is most familiar with the SL infrastructure.
-walter On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:41 AM, David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that there is a kind of formal technical/distribution position > forming here. Ie... someone that would be responsible for supporting > distribution methods of sugar (this should not be confused with QA, > bugsquad or anything else) It just needs to be a person that can say > all the available methods of distribution, and perhaps working on > communication between distros and Sugar team... what do u guys think? > Marten or I are both capable of doing this job just fine, but it kind > of overlaps with the infrastructure team... we'd need to be sure like > Marten says we have access to a server to set up rsync, torrent > distribution and even our own build Service (openSUSE build service is > totally gpl ;-) ) What should this position be called, I have no > idea, I came up with lateral distro architect, but I have no idea if > that is specific enough or even too generic. > > What do u think? perhaps forming a team that me and marten can be > integrated with seams obvious for the time being. Both of us also want > to work towards centralised distribution methods that are push and not > just pull, whatever they might be. I'm forwarding this to sugar-devel > as well as this has to do with them too, and an olpc rep so that we > can make sure they know what we are doing with sugar distribution. > > kind Regards, > David (Nubae) Van Assche > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Marten Vijn <i...@martenvijn.nl> wrote: >> Thanks David, >> >> I will go for bandwith then asking for rsync as requirement. >> A torrend would optional. >> >> Some things I would like to assure mirrors have to: >> - have directory layout >> - same names >> >> Features I would also like to have >> - having a "Last_version" symlink to the last version. >> (keep links valid over time) >> - md5sums >> - list of mirrors on the website >> - or better mirror autoselection >> >> >> Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve >> this? (I guess ssh access would be needed) >> >> Kind regards, >> Marten >> >> >> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wrote: >>> One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, >>> ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image, >>> but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this >>> would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being >>> hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]): >>> >>> First check the latest image at: >>> >>> (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely >>> integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight >>> into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or >>> openSUSE-edu is here: >>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ ) >>> >>> The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can >>> tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ >>> >>> Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available: >>> >>> cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso >>> >>> Run rsync again to patch it: >>> >>> rsync -avP >>> rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso >>> . >>> >>> Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command. >>> >>> This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some >>> cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download. >>> >>> Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if >>> a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or >>> something... >>> >>> kind Regards, >>> David (Nubae) Van Assche >>> >>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <i...@martenvijn.nl> wrote: >>> > Dear All, >>> > >>> > In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar. >>> > >>> > - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar >>> > >>> > - I have send a request for testing to i-netw...@dgroups.org. >>> > This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa. >>> > >>> > My findings so far: >>> > 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download >>> > an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email? >>> > This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing". >>> > >>> > 2. The download seems to be slow. >>> > >>> > Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image? >>> > Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution >>> > (syncing/redirecting). >>> > >>> > kind regards, >>> > Marten >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn >>> > http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick >>> > http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit >>> > http://har2009.org 13th-16th August >>> > http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> -- >> http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn >> http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick >> http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit >> http://har2009.org 13th-16th August >> http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > market...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel