spins March 2009

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Spin for DF-Day
by A. Mani 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was quite unaware of this list. Anyway... Document Freedom Day is on 25th March. ~300+ teams all over world will be participating. I proposed a custom Fedora spin for the day (for all teams) in the DF-day mailing list and some people have shown interest. Basically it should include 1. Mainly destop oriented packages (updated stable Fedora10) 2. All Open Office stuff with good collection of templates, Dictonaries 3. Scribus, GIMP, Koffice, Gnumeric, Docbook, Lua, Quanta etc (latest stable) 4. TexLive and IDEs 5. Lots of Advocacy related documentation + Whitepapers, Technical = A Folder + html page reports, Tutorials etc (for DF-Day): = A Folder + html page It may be a matter of adding a Folder + html page + some custom artwork (from DF-Day people) + wallpaper(s) (from DF-Day people) + a few small customisations to an existing custom spin. (This year the document freedom day people announced the day in the last week of Feb and so I could not come with this earlier. The whole spin creation process seems to be a long one.) Please suggest a suitable spin and ...how should I proceed? Document Freedom Day: www.documentfreedom .org Fedora Custom spin Page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Custom/DF-Spin Fedora Event: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents#Asia.2C_India.2C_Australia_Q1 My Team: http://documentfreedom.org/Ilug-CalInfo Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmz0vMACgkQunMISzvdfU4pjQCfVa6VAYED702YvfWFoJfT+bHy HZ4An25OkS2d6ZwsvFeaQi57xijLh7q9 =YylZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Excluding *.i?86 on x86_64 images
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, As you can see on http://www.kanarip.com/revisor/, a lot of x86_64 spins fail composing against rawhide because of file-level conflicts between a .i?86 and a .x86_64 package. For the Fedora 9 & 10 respins (also on that page), I resolved this by excluding all .i?86 packages from the YUM repositories (through Revisor's YUM configuration file used for each spin respectively). As a side-effect of removing *.i?86, the size of the spins also decreased a little. If I do the same for rawhide spins, the compose process I use for these daily spins stops reflecting what happens during the "official" composes by the Fedora Project. There's a subtle difference in these two processes already, but at least now we can be sure that if Revisor errors out, so would livecd-tools. What do you think? Should I exclude all .i?86 packages on x86_64 spins? If we do, can we make sure this happens during the official composes as well -without forcing Release Engineering to use revisor-cli instead of livecd-tools? Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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Approved spins for Fedora 11
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hello, I wanted to let you know what the approved spins list is for Fedora 11: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Spins_Fedora_11 has the list, but I'll list some notes on each of these. A page similar to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Features has to be created for spins, too. In the end, content will end up on spins.fedoraproject.org (obviously). = AOS Spin = * Format: .img (~130MB) * To be composed with appliance-tools * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin = BrOffice.org Spin = * Format: CD * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrOffice.org_Spin = Education Spin = * Format: CD * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Education_Spin = Electronic Lab Spin = * Format: DVD * Would like to become available over HTTP also, since many of it's community do not have torrent available. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraElectronicLab = Games Spin = * Format: DVD * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games_Spin = XFCE Spin = * Format: CD * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XFCE_Spin This is a grand total of 6 spins, excluding the Desktop and KDE "permanent" spins. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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Daily respins
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

For your information, I'm creating daily respins since I find that: 1) spins do not compose against rawhide most of the time 2) current releases: 2a) are oversized 2b) fail composing because of dependency errors In the case of 1), these daily composes that I do are an indicator of what might be the actual cause, and in the case of 2{a,b}), these daily composes tell us where to look. I think it's very important to note that although the Fedora Project itself doesn't use the kickstarts associated with a current version of Fedora, people do -and expect a spin that composes, at least. Some of the trouble is caused by failing dependencies which can also happen on any installed system doing a 'yum update'. Visit http://www.kanarip.com/revisor/ for actual output. Let me know how you think we can further improve on this. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip PS. For access to the .iso and .torrent files, you need to authenticate because this stuff is all untested and not public.

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F-11-Beta branch created
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

The F-11-Beta branch has been created. This means, that commits that go onto the master branch need to be reviewed before they are cherry-picked onto the F-11-Beta branch. Please submit the exact commit code you want to see cherry-picked in a ticket on http://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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Re: [Fedora-spins] FEL Spin
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen > <kanarip(a)kanarip.com> wrote: >> Hey Chitlesh, >> >> i've not seen your spin in any parts of the process, yet. Could you please >> read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Process? > > I had already reserved a timeslot this weekend and the next one as well. :) > Hey Chitlesh, your page still isn't in the right Category or review queue... Get it updated and reviewed by John Poelstra before the Feature Freeze, and notify the Spins SIG every step of the way so they can take FEL for a quick vote, before it's too late. Summary: The page has to be updated and pass two (!) review queues before the Feature Freeze tomorrow (!). Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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[spin-kickstarts] #18: fedora-livedvd-developer.ks fails to compose
by fedora-badges 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

#18: fedora-livedvd-developer.ks fails to compose ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: rishi | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 10 GA Component: fedora-developer | Keywords: ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- fedora-livedvd-developer.ks contains sysprof, which has been removed from Fedora to Livna because it needs a kernel module. Due to this the spin fails to compose. The attached patch fixes this issue. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/ticket/18> spin-kickstarts <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/> Kickstarts that the Spin SIG reviews, tests, maintains and releases (as a package).

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[spin-kickstarts] #7: Education Math Live CD Oversized
by fedora-badges 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

#7: Education Math Live CD Oversized -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: kanarip | Owner: sdz Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 10 Beta Component: fedora-education-math | Keywords: -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- The ISO at http://spinner.fedoraunity.org/revisor/rawhide-x86_64-live- education-math-respin/ is 786M, too large for a CD -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/ticket/7> spin-kickstarts <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/> Kickstarts that the Spin SIG reviews, tests, maintains and releases (as a package).

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Vote on FEL Spin (was: Re: FEL Spin)
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >> Summary: The page has to be updated and pass two (!) review queues before >> the Feature Freeze tomorrow (!). > > I try to create that page and my girlfriend is not very happy that for > her birthday I'm with Fedora. Cheers !! hahaha > > Well if there are any updates or suggestions please consider that I'll > obey them. If there are minor wiki settings I missed please do update > it accordingly. With Thibault focussing on his studies and Aanjhan > porting FEL to ubuntu, I'm doing everything for FEL. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraElectronicLab > Since this spin was in already in Fedora 10, and has had major attention drawn to it -and thus Fedora- ever since it was first released with Fedora 8 (iirc), I'm willing to make an exemption to the Feature Freeze last night and give it a late +1. Can I get some other votes please? Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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Games Spin at today's board meeting?
by Bruno Wolff III 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I wasn't able to attend today's board meeting and wanted to make sure the Games Spin came up since it is incorrectly still listed in the Spins Ready for SIG category instead of Spins Ready for Board category. Were any of you able to attend the meeting? I looked for the IRC log, but it hasn't been posted yet.

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