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= OLPC Packages for F11 =
== Goal ==
== Goal ==


The goal is to make the next release of what was "OLPC 9.1" into a "Fedora 11 release", and to bring the packages outside of the current Fedora process inside of it.  If we can get it done by feature freeze on 3/3, so much the better.  :) For background context, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_discussion_2009-01-09.
The goal is to make the next release of what was "OLPC 9.1" into a "Fedora 11 release", and to bring the packages outside of the current Fedora process inside of it.  If we can get it done by feature freeze on 3/3, so much the better.  :) For background context, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_discussion_2009-01-09.


== Koji Packages ==
== Packages branched from Mainline ==
The following packages in Koji exist in the OLPC-4 collection but not in the Fedora-devel (Fedora 11) collection.  Our job is to integrate them.
The following packages in Koji exist in the OLPC-4 collection but not in the Fedora-devel (Fedora 11) collection.  Our job is to integrate them.


=== GConf2-dbus-2.16.0-14.fc10 (rnorwood) ===
=== abiword-2.6.5-3.olpc4 (gregdek) ===
Rainbow is broken with the version of GConf in F10 because of the way Rainbow preforks activities. Since preforking is now turned off, we can try to use the GConf that's shipped in F10 and see what happens.
Minimalized compilation options?  The real issue is that abiword was built monolithically in Fedora because we could, and there was no reason not to.  For OLPC, a lot of functionality was stripped for space reasons.  The goal should be to make Abiword in Fedora be built in a more modular way, allowing users (and derivatives) to pick and choose which chunks are installed.


=== SDL_mixer-1.2.8-9.olpc4.1 (bpepple) ===
* PBR: abiword in Fedora is now build as modular as possible. The OLPC version of abiword has the following removed " --disable-bonobo --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui --disable-gucharmap --disable-printing" which tend to be useful for most people. With abiword 2.7/2.8 removes gnomevfs, bonobo, gnomeui requirements and uses gtkprint. We need to review the difference between the two builds in the new version of abiword.spec and see what's still missing.
timidity++-patches required, which pulls in PersonalCopy-lite; need to split out SDL_mixer.
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471623 RHBZ 471623]


=== abiword-2.6.5-3.olpc4 ===
=== fedora-release-10-1.2 (gregdek) ===
Minimalized compilation options?  The real issue is that abiword was built monolithically in Fedora because we could, and there was no reason not to.  For OLPC, a lot of functionality was stripped for space reasons.  The goal should be to make Abiword in Fedora be built in a more modular way, allowing users (and derivatives) to pick and choose which chunks are installed.
 
=== fedora-release-10-1.2 ===
Forced to fork because it's currently a different distro.  When the Fedora fixes are implemented, this package just goes away.
Forced to fork because it's currently a different distro.  When the Fedora fixes are implemented, this package just goes away.


=== hippo-canvas-0.3.0-5.20081014svn.olpc4 ===
=== glibc/glibc-common (sayamindu) ===
So it appears that maybe the online desktop stuff is using a different (older?) version. We should figure out if anyone inside of RH/Fedora actually cares about maintaining this stuff, and if not, hand it over to OLPC/Sugar folks for maintenance. Otherwise, we need to ask the owner to merge changes in.  
Forked by Sayamindu to make language packs work. Five lines, but contains OLPC-specific stuff. The fundamental problem: translation happens on a systemwide application level, but activities would like to use gettext to allow activity localization at the user application level.  Seems like this should be a problem that everyone is interested in solving.  Ask Sayamindu about this.


=== hulahop-0.4.7-1.olpc4 ===
=== gnome-vfs2 ===
Fixed upstream by probinson, built for F10 (pending), should just show up for F11. Confirm and then untag for OLPC-4.
Not sure if we still need the dependency on gnome-vfs2. It will be pulled in by xulrunner at least. Might be fixed for F-12 though.
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456119 bug from OLPC-3 branch]


=== initscripts-8.86-1.olpc4.3 ===
=== hippo-canvas-0.3.0-5.20081014svn.olpc4 (bpepple) ===
Probably complicated and a bunch of reasons.  One big one: OLPC doesn't use GDM to start Sugar. Use Slim instead?  ctyler thinks maybe this can be refactored, and will explain how.  :)  NEEDINFO.
So it appears that maybe the online desktop stuff is using a different (older?) version. We should figure out if anyone inside of RH/Fedora actually cares about maintaining this stuff, and if not, hand it over to OLPC/Sugar folks for maintenance. Otherwise, we need to ask the owner to merge changes in.


=== olpc-utils-0.89-4.olpc4 ===
=== totem-2.24.3-5.olpc4 (gregdek) ===
Just needs to be included in Fedora and untagged.  Also in joyride; just need to get latest stuff into F11.
Removes deps. scrollkeeper, gnome-desktop, gnome-themes, libglade2-devel, nautilus-devel, lirc, gmyth, tracker, gvfs-fuse.  Owner in Fedora: hadess.


=== sugar-evince-2.24.1-1.olpc4 ===
* PBR: With 2.26.x the only relevant of the ones listed above are: gnome-themes, gvfs-fuse and scrollkeeper. All the rest are either no longer relevant or are dependencies of plugins subpackages which don't need to be installed. Scrollkeeper is an install dep.
Conflicts with Fedora evince -- need to do more analysis. Unlike abiword issues which involve configuration of code that is all upstream, sugar-evince carries patches that are not upstream.  The first problem to solve is to get patches upsteam if possible. If this is hard, we'll figure something else out. :)


We'll discover soon how hard it is: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Evince ;) [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]] 09:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
=== totem-pl-parser-2.24.2-5.olpc4 (gregdek) ===
camel dep.


=== sugar-presence-service-0.83.2-1.olpc4 ===
=== xulrunner (pbrobinson) ===
Pending, but morgs is doing this.
xulrunner 1.9.0 required some extra patches for various bugs/features. Not sure whether these are still needed for xulrunner 1.9.1.


=== telepathy-gabble-0.7.16-1.olpc4 ===
=== initscripts-8.86-1.olpc4.3 (gregdek) ===
Is a problem with Rainbow: the OLPC version requires changes to dbus+kernel because of socket security issues.  We need to make decisions about whether we're going to get these changes upstream, and if not, what our other options are.
Probably complicated and a bunch of reasons.  One big one: OLPC doesn't use GDM to start Sugar.  Use Slim instead?  ctyler thinks maybe this can be refactored, and will explain how.  :)  NEEDINFO.  '''gregdek will sit down with notting, the owner of initscripts for Fedora.'''


=== telepathy-glib-0.7.20-1.olpc4 ===
== Packages branched for Rainbow support ==
Same rainbow problem


=== telepathy-salut-0.3.6-1.olpc4 ===
=== rainbow ===
Same rainbow problem
Needs to be refreshed from current upstream sources.


=== totem-2.24.3-5.olpc4 ===
=== GConf2-dbus-2.16.0-14.fc10 (rnorwood) ===
Removes deps. scrollkeeper, gnome-desktop, gnome-themes, libglade2-devel, nautilus-devel, lirc, gmyth, tracker, gvfs-fuse
GConf2-dbus was incompatible with the single-daemon launch acceleration provided by late 0.7-series rainbow implementations; however, this acceleration feature has been dropped in upstream rainbow. The compatibility status of the new design is unknown.
 
=== totem-pl-parser-2.24.2-5.olpc4 ===
camel dep.


=== upstart-0.3.9-19.olpc4.1 ===
=== "Session"-specific D-Bus buses ===
need to check with dgilmore why we have an old version of upstart
"Session"-specific D-Bus daemons like the session bus and the Telepathy connection managers are traditionally configured based on a false assumption that "all of Human X's programs run under [a fixed] uid Y." Rainbow, which brings the traditional security techniques of privilege-separated Unix daemons to the desktop, reveals this underlying misconception.


=== sugar* ===
As mentioned on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow#Next_Steps Rainbow's "next steps"] list, several upstream-acceptable designs have been identified, which could be implemented by anyone familiar with the appropriate D-Bus code.
In rawhide already, but we need an owner to update them when upstream does releases.


== Joyride Packages ==
== Joyride Packages ==
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The following packages exist in Joyride, but not in Koji -- usually because they are too new and haven't made their way into Koji, or conflict directly with packages in Fedora.
The following packages exist in Joyride, but not in Koji -- usually because they are too new and haven't made their way into Koji, or conflict directly with packages in Fedora.


=== Mothanna-fonts ===
=== Mothanna-fonts (kennyp) ===
Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. [[rhbug:462711|Existing review request]] (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).
Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. [[rhbug:462711|Existing review request]] (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).


=== Thabit-fonts ===
=== Thabit-fonts (kennyp) ===
Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. [[rhbug:461139|Existing review request]] (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).
Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. [[rhbug:461139|Existing review request]] (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).


=== cerebro ===
===bootanim (pbrobinson) ===
Needs import and review
Not sure about this one, might need to convert the boot animation to plymouth as a plugin
 
===bootfw ===
The openfirmware used by OLPC is in the public domain.
* Details on how to compile it are in [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-April/023990.html this post].
* It doesn't currently support ext4 for though.
 
=== cerebro (rnorwood) ===
Review request [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457279 RHBZ 457279]


=== ds-backup-client ===
=== ds-backup-client (kennyp) ===
Needs import and review
Needs import and review


=== etoys ===
=== kernel (cjb) ===
requires squeak
 
=== kernel ===
open issues:  
open issues:  


* open firmware (promfs): Need to reevaluate in the context of latest work that has been done on ofw upstream by Dave Miller and Steven Rothwell.
* open firmware interface (arch/x86/kernel/ofw.[ch]): Need to reevaluate in the context of latest work that has been done on ofw upstream by Dave Miller and Steven Rothwell.
* geode GPIO driver (used by DCON and suspend/resume): eyeball the gpio work that's been done lately to see if it's acceptable, and figure out strategy for going forward if it isn't.
* dcon driver (drivers/video/olpc_dcon.[ch])
* suspend/resume code (arch/x86/kernel/olpc_pm.*)
* parts of the HGPK touchpad:  drivers/input/mouse/olpc.c i believe it's been upstreamed, but there are outstanding patches that need reworking before resubmission.


* gpio driver: eyeball the gpio work that's been done lately to see if it's acceptable, and figure out strategy for going forward if it isn't.
Updated from the messages on fedora-olpc [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-April/msg00003.html here] and [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-April/msg00007.html here]


=== libertas-usb8388-firmware ===
Also possible issues with the camera driver and not sure if the missing memory issue is resolved.
Binary firmware blob -- no policy issue, we just need the latest. Or is there a policy issue?


=== olpc-library-common ===
=== olpc-licenses (gregdek) ===
Library indexing script and HTML templates.  Needs import and review.
 
=== olpc-licenses ===
OLPC strips out a bunch of documentation to save space, and olpc-licenses is provided to put the licenses back for GPL and other license compliance.  Long-term fix: fix Fedora to separate docs from license by tagging license as a special flavor of licensedoc.  Short-term fix: Spot waves his wand and says "put olpc-licenses into Fedora."
OLPC strips out a bunch of documentation to save space, and olpc-licenses is provided to put the licenses back for GPL and other license compliance.  Long-term fix: fix Fedora to separate docs from license by tagging license as a special flavor of licensedoc.  Short-term fix: Spot waves his wand and says "put olpc-licenses into Fedora."


=== olpcrd ===
=== upstart-0.3.9-19.olpc4.1 (rnorwood) ===
Will we be creating a separate initrd for Fedora?  We know that the biggest difference in initrd was the security stuff, which Chris Ball has made clear that OLPC will be dropping. Still need to figure out what needs to be done here.
upstart lacks sysvinit's "--init" option, which permits /sbin/init to run as "pid != 1" and which is used by OLPC's initramfs. A volunteer, Cortland Setlow, implemented the feature for upstart-0.3.9 during the OLPC-2 -> OLPC-3 transition but no one attempted to push the implementation upstream. In Feb 2009, another volunteer named Bobby Powers attempted, [http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg17866.html unsuccessfully], to rebase the patches.


=== olpcsudo ===
=== olpcsudo (cjb) ===
This is essentially a Python version of sudo.  Built to solve the problem of "root password being empty", which is shared by the Fedora Live CD.  Current recommendation is to drop olpcsudo, but we need to verify with cjb. (This is C. Scott's package.) (this should be dropped for several reasons -- it's incompatible with "real" sudo, for instance.)
This is essentially a Python version of sudo.  Built to solve the problem of "root password being empty", which is shared by the Fedora Live CD.  Current recommendation is to drop olpcsudo, but we need to verify with cjb. (This is C. Scott's package.) (this should be dropped for several reasons -- it's incompatible with "real" sudo, for instance.)


=== rainbow ===
== Fixed in Fedora 12 Rawhide ==
Already packaged in Fedora, just need to check version in joyride vs. Fedora. mstone is maintainer in Fedora, so this should be easy.
 
=== olpc-library-common (awagner83) ===
Library indexing script and HTML templates. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510321 RHBZ 510321] Done.
 
=== olpcrd (katzj via gregdek) ===
Will we be creating a separate initrd for Fedora?  We know that the biggest difference in initrd was the security stuff, which Chris Ball has made clear that OLPC will be dropping. Still need to figure out what needs to be done here. FIXED. Moving to dracut with dracut-modules for the security stuff [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511916 RHBZ 511916].
 
=== pygtk2/pygtk2-libglade (probinson) ===
Fix now in PyGTK 2.15 [http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2009-May/016986.html Release notes here]. [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397544 BGO 397544]. Now fixed in F-12/rawhide.
 
== Fixed in Fedora 11 ==


=== sugar-update-control ===
=== abyssinica-fonts (bochecha) ===
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4951, and http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/sugar-update-control;a=summary; c_scott's work.  This depends heavily on infrastructure that may no longer be maintained, since it's a full standalone update mechanism.  It updates only activities, and is probably depended upon by .  Consult with cjb.


=== bootfw ===
Imported in Fedora by Bernie Innocenti, recently [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/abyssinica-fonts orphaned]. In good shape overall (but adding fontconfig rules to the package would be nice, and needs a renaming to conform to [[PackagingDrafts/Font_package_naming_(2009-01-13)|guidelines]]).
XO Firmware image - developed by Mitch et al, but packaged by cscott as an RPM. See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/bootfw;a=summary, "Sources for the bootfw RPM, which contains the OFW version bundled with a build."  Also need to determine whether Fedora policy allows us to import this work into Fedora. Note that this package contains both closed-source, hardware-specific code, and splash screens. (After talking with pgf and cjb, mchua writes: "bootfw consists of two parts; the open-source OFW code, and the closed-source, hardware-specific EC firmware that gets pulled into OFW as a binary blob when it's built. (Note that there's precedent for hardware-specific closed-source bits in Fedora: see random-laptop-wireless-firmware rpms in F11.) Priority on migrating this to F11 is very low, as it this can be a manual step for now, like on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware. This can be revisited at a later date." In other words:


* It looks like we can import this work into Fedora; there is precedence.
=== csound/olpcsound (perobinson) ===
* We don't have to do it right now. Ignore and get back to this later.
Once csound is updated from 5.03 to 5.10 in fedora olpc can be marked obsolete and removed. csound 5.10.1 is now in F-11 and F-12/rawhide. In rawhide it obsoletes olpcsound.


=== glibc ===
=== etoys (gavinRK) ===
Forked by Sayamindu to make language packs work.  Five lines, but contains OLPC-specific stuff.  The fundamental problem: translation happens on a systemwide application level, but activities would like to use gettext to allow activity localization at the user application level.  Seems like this should be a problem that everyone is interested in solving.  Ask Sayamindu about this.
requires squeak


=== glibc-common ===
* In rawhide as of [http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg01872.html 24 Feb 2009]
Same problem as glibc.


=== olpc-contents4 ===  
=== libertas-usb8388-firmware (gregdek) ===
Indexing scripts for maintaining OLPC content.  Used by olpc-update and needs to be addressed by cjb.
Binary firmware blob -- no policy issue, we just need the latest.  Or is there a policy issue?  gregdek will find out.


=== olpc-update ===
* Already in Fedora. Original package review [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420931 here]. Also has the same type of licensing as the Intel wifi firmwares so should be OK - PBR 2/3/09
System updater. Updates the system image. Until we understand how we're going to build OLPC images (which we'll learn from cjb), we don't have an answer here.


=== pygobject2 ===
=== nafees-web-naskh-fonts (bochecha) ===
Waiting for upstream patches.  Need to find out if we're using Python 2.6 in F11.
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569 BGO 481569] A patch for wakeups.


=== pygtk2 ===
Imported in Fedora by Bernie Innocenti, recently [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/nafees-web-naskh-fonts orphaned]. In good shape overall (but adding fontconfig rules to the package would be nice).
Waiting for upstream patches.
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397544 BGO 397544]


=== pygtk2-libglade ===
=== numpy (perobinson) ===
Waiting for upstream patches.
Depends on python-devel and fortran. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494113 RHBZ 494113]


=== python & python-libs ===
=== SDL_mixer-1.2.8-9.olpc4.1 (bpepple) ===
Waiting for upstream patches. May be in Python 2.6?
timidity++-patches required, which pulls in PersonalCopy-lite; need to split out SDL_mixer.
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475005 RHBZ 475005] A patch for wakeups.
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471623 RHBZ 471623] Fixed in build SDL_mixer-1.2.8-12.fc11


=== squeak-vm ===
=== squeak-vm (gavinRK) ===
This is a packaging issue, iirc: since squeak is a binary that produces its own source code thru introspection (boggle) it falls out of our traditional packaging guidelines.  We need to consider an excpetion thru fesco.  gavin r-k was dirving this; we will follow up.  Let us produce a source RPM for Spot to puke upon, if puking is required.
This is a packaging issue, iirc: since squeak is a binary that produces its own source code thru introspection (boggle) it falls out of our traditional packaging guidelines.  We need to consider an excpetion thru fesco.  gavin r-k was dirving this; we will follow up.  Let us produce a source RPM for Spot to puke upon, if puking is required.
* In rawhide as of [http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg01872.html 24 Feb 2009] - PBR 2/3/09
=== sugar-artwork (quaid) ===
''Status update due''
* [[pkgdb:sugar-artwork|sugar-artwork]]
=== sugar-base ===
=== sugar-datastore ===
=== sugar-evince-2.24.1-1.olpc4 (smparrish) ===
'''New evince is supposed to land in GNOME 2.26 to incorporate upstream fixes.  Once gnome-desktop2-evince is built, this can be cut.'''  Conflicts with Fedora evince -- need to do more analysis.  Unlike abiword issues which involve configuration of code that is all upstream, sugar-evince carries patches that are not upstream.  The first problem to solve is to get patches upsteam if possible.  If this is hard, we'll figure something else out.  :)
We'll discover soon how hard it is: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Evince ;) [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]] 09:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
* All the changes are now in upstream Evince (and hence rawhide) so sugar-evince is now obsolete. There's a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480729 RHBZ 480729] to split the libs out of the main evince package so its smaller (a lot) but that's not a blocker. - PBR 2/3/09
=== sugar-presence-service ===
=== sugar-toolkit ===
=== sugar-update-control (smparrish) ===
'''This package is awaiting review.''' See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4951, and http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/sugar-update-control;a=summary; c_scott's work.  This depends heavily on infrastructure that may no longer be maintained, since it's a full standalone update mechanism.  UPDATE: just scrapes the wiki for latest activities.  It updates only activities.  Relatively harmless.
=== sugar-* (Activities) ===
* [[pkgdb:sugar-evince|sugar-evince]] - OLPC version of the evince document viewer
* [[pkgdb:sugar-analyze|sugar-analyze]] - Analysing tool for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-browse|sugar-browse]] - Browse activity for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-chat|sugar-chat]] - Chat client for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-calculator|sugar-calculator]] - Calculator for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-connect|sugar-connect]] - Connect for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-distance|sugar-distance]] - Distance measurement for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-imageviewer|sugar-imageviewer]] - Simple image viewer for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-implode|sugar-implode]] - Implode for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-memorize|sugar-memorize]] - Memorize for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-speak|sugar-speak]] - Speak for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-turtleart|sugar-turtleart]] - Turtleart activity for the sugar desktop
* [[pkgdb:sugar-journal|sugar-journal]] - Journal for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-jukebox|sugar-jukebox]] - Media player activity for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-terminal|sugar-terminal]] - Terminal for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-log|sugar-log]] - Log activity for Sugar
* [[pkgdb:sugar-moon|sugar-moon]] - Moon activity for the sugar desktop
* [[pkgdb:sugar-write|sugar-write]] - Word processor for Sugar
In rawhide already, but we need an owner to update them when upstream does releases.
* I'm quite happy to do this. Just let me know what packages and I'll request co-maintainer on them - PBR 2/3/09
=== telepathy-glib-0.7.20-1.olpc4 (gregdek) ===
No patches -- a false fork.  Should just be untagging.
* The reason for this 'fork' was so they could get a later version than the one in F-10 for features. Obv not an issue in rawhide - PBR 2/3/09


== Build hacks ==
== Build hacks ==


Even after all packages are integrated into Fedora, there are likely a few hacks introduced when the OLPC image is built.  We will need to identify these, describe them, and eliminate them if possible.
Even after all packages are integrated into Fedora, there are likely a few hacks introduced when the OLPC image is built.  We will need to identify these, describe them, and eliminate them if possible.
[[Category:OLPC]]

Latest revision as of 12:43, 16 July 2009

Goal

The goal is to make the next release of what was "OLPC 9.1" into a "Fedora 11 release", and to bring the packages outside of the current Fedora process inside of it. If we can get it done by feature freeze on 3/3, so much the better.  :) For background context, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_discussion_2009-01-09.

Packages branched from Mainline

The following packages in Koji exist in the OLPC-4 collection but not in the Fedora-devel (Fedora 11) collection. Our job is to integrate them.

abiword-2.6.5-3.olpc4 (gregdek)

Minimalized compilation options? The real issue is that abiword was built monolithically in Fedora because we could, and there was no reason not to. For OLPC, a lot of functionality was stripped for space reasons. The goal should be to make Abiword in Fedora be built in a more modular way, allowing users (and derivatives) to pick and choose which chunks are installed.

  • PBR: abiword in Fedora is now build as modular as possible. The OLPC version of abiword has the following removed " --disable-bonobo --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui --disable-gucharmap --disable-printing" which tend to be useful for most people. With abiword 2.7/2.8 removes gnomevfs, bonobo, gnomeui requirements and uses gtkprint. We need to review the difference between the two builds in the new version of abiword.spec and see what's still missing.

fedora-release-10-1.2 (gregdek)

Forced to fork because it's currently a different distro. When the Fedora fixes are implemented, this package just goes away.

glibc/glibc-common (sayamindu)

Forked by Sayamindu to make language packs work. Five lines, but contains OLPC-specific stuff. The fundamental problem: translation happens on a systemwide application level, but activities would like to use gettext to allow activity localization at the user application level. Seems like this should be a problem that everyone is interested in solving. Ask Sayamindu about this.

gnome-vfs2

Not sure if we still need the dependency on gnome-vfs2. It will be pulled in by xulrunner at least. Might be fixed for F-12 though. bug from OLPC-3 branch

hippo-canvas-0.3.0-5.20081014svn.olpc4 (bpepple)

So it appears that maybe the online desktop stuff is using a different (older?) version. We should figure out if anyone inside of RH/Fedora actually cares about maintaining this stuff, and if not, hand it over to OLPC/Sugar folks for maintenance. Otherwise, we need to ask the owner to merge changes in.

totem-2.24.3-5.olpc4 (gregdek)

Removes deps. scrollkeeper, gnome-desktop, gnome-themes, libglade2-devel, nautilus-devel, lirc, gmyth, tracker, gvfs-fuse. Owner in Fedora: hadess.

  • PBR: With 2.26.x the only relevant of the ones listed above are: gnome-themes, gvfs-fuse and scrollkeeper. All the rest are either no longer relevant or are dependencies of plugins subpackages which don't need to be installed. Scrollkeeper is an install dep.

totem-pl-parser-2.24.2-5.olpc4 (gregdek)

camel dep.

xulrunner (pbrobinson)

xulrunner 1.9.0 required some extra patches for various bugs/features. Not sure whether these are still needed for xulrunner 1.9.1.

initscripts-8.86-1.olpc4.3 (gregdek)

Probably complicated and a bunch of reasons. One big one: OLPC doesn't use GDM to start Sugar. Use Slim instead? ctyler thinks maybe this can be refactored, and will explain how.  :) NEEDINFO. gregdek will sit down with notting, the owner of initscripts for Fedora.

Packages branched for Rainbow support

rainbow

Needs to be refreshed from current upstream sources.

GConf2-dbus-2.16.0-14.fc10 (rnorwood)

GConf2-dbus was incompatible with the single-daemon launch acceleration provided by late 0.7-series rainbow implementations; however, this acceleration feature has been dropped in upstream rainbow. The compatibility status of the new design is unknown.

"Session"-specific D-Bus buses

"Session"-specific D-Bus daemons like the session bus and the Telepathy connection managers are traditionally configured based on a false assumption that "all of Human X's programs run under [a fixed] uid Y." Rainbow, which brings the traditional security techniques of privilege-separated Unix daemons to the desktop, reveals this underlying misconception.

As mentioned on Rainbow's "next steps" list, several upstream-acceptable designs have been identified, which could be implemented by anyone familiar with the appropriate D-Bus code.

Joyride Packages

The following packages exist in Joyride, but not in Koji -- usually because they are too new and haven't made their way into Koji, or conflict directly with packages in Fedora.

Mothanna-fonts (kennyp)

Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. Existing review request (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).

Thabit-fonts (kennyp)

Needs conversion to Fedora packaging guidelines. Existing review request (stalled due to lack of action of the reporter).

bootanim (pbrobinson)

Not sure about this one, might need to convert the boot animation to plymouth as a plugin

bootfw

The openfirmware used by OLPC is in the public domain.

  • Details on how to compile it are in this post.
  • It doesn't currently support ext4 for though.

cerebro (rnorwood)

Review request RHBZ 457279

ds-backup-client (kennyp)

Needs import and review

kernel (cjb)

open issues:

  • open firmware interface (arch/x86/kernel/ofw.[ch]): Need to reevaluate in the context of latest work that has been done on ofw upstream by Dave Miller and Steven Rothwell.
  • geode GPIO driver (used by DCON and suspend/resume): eyeball the gpio work that's been done lately to see if it's acceptable, and figure out strategy for going forward if it isn't.
  • dcon driver (drivers/video/olpc_dcon.[ch])
  • suspend/resume code (arch/x86/kernel/olpc_pm.*)
  • parts of the HGPK touchpad: drivers/input/mouse/olpc.c i believe it's been upstreamed, but there are outstanding patches that need reworking before resubmission.

Updated from the messages on fedora-olpc here and here

Also possible issues with the camera driver and not sure if the missing memory issue is resolved.

olpc-licenses (gregdek)

OLPC strips out a bunch of documentation to save space, and olpc-licenses is provided to put the licenses back for GPL and other license compliance. Long-term fix: fix Fedora to separate docs from license by tagging license as a special flavor of licensedoc. Short-term fix: Spot waves his wand and says "put olpc-licenses into Fedora."

upstart-0.3.9-19.olpc4.1 (rnorwood)

upstart lacks sysvinit's "--init" option, which permits /sbin/init to run as "pid != 1" and which is used by OLPC's initramfs. A volunteer, Cortland Setlow, implemented the feature for upstart-0.3.9 during the OLPC-2 -> OLPC-3 transition but no one attempted to push the implementation upstream. In Feb 2009, another volunteer named Bobby Powers attempted, unsuccessfully, to rebase the patches.

olpcsudo (cjb)

This is essentially a Python version of sudo. Built to solve the problem of "root password being empty", which is shared by the Fedora Live CD. Current recommendation is to drop olpcsudo, but we need to verify with cjb. (This is C. Scott's package.) (this should be dropped for several reasons -- it's incompatible with "real" sudo, for instance.)

Fixed in Fedora 12 Rawhide

olpc-library-common (awagner83)

Library indexing script and HTML templates. RHBZ 510321 Done.

olpcrd (katzj via gregdek)

Will we be creating a separate initrd for Fedora? We know that the biggest difference in initrd was the security stuff, which Chris Ball has made clear that OLPC will be dropping. Still need to figure out what needs to be done here. FIXED. Moving to dracut with dracut-modules for the security stuff RHBZ 511916.

pygtk2/pygtk2-libglade (probinson)

Fix now in PyGTK 2.15 Release notes here. BGO 397544. Now fixed in F-12/rawhide.

Fixed in Fedora 11

abyssinica-fonts (bochecha)

Imported in Fedora by Bernie Innocenti, recently orphaned. In good shape overall (but adding fontconfig rules to the package would be nice, and needs a renaming to conform to guidelines).

csound/olpcsound (perobinson)

Once csound is updated from 5.03 to 5.10 in fedora olpc can be marked obsolete and removed. csound 5.10.1 is now in F-11 and F-12/rawhide. In rawhide it obsoletes olpcsound.

etoys (gavinRK)

requires squeak

libertas-usb8388-firmware (gregdek)

Binary firmware blob -- no policy issue, we just need the latest. Or is there a policy issue? gregdek will find out.

  • Already in Fedora. Original package review here. Also has the same type of licensing as the Intel wifi firmwares so should be OK - PBR 2/3/09

nafees-web-naskh-fonts (bochecha)

Imported in Fedora by Bernie Innocenti, recently orphaned. In good shape overall (but adding fontconfig rules to the package would be nice).

numpy (perobinson)

Depends on python-devel and fortran. RHBZ 494113

SDL_mixer-1.2.8-9.olpc4.1 (bpepple)

timidity++-patches required, which pulls in PersonalCopy-lite; need to split out SDL_mixer. RHBZ 471623 Fixed in build SDL_mixer-1.2.8-12.fc11

squeak-vm (gavinRK)

This is a packaging issue, iirc: since squeak is a binary that produces its own source code thru introspection (boggle) it falls out of our traditional packaging guidelines. We need to consider an excpetion thru fesco. gavin r-k was dirving this; we will follow up. Let us produce a source RPM for Spot to puke upon, if puking is required.

sugar-artwork (quaid)

Status update due

sugar-base

sugar-datastore

sugar-evince-2.24.1-1.olpc4 (smparrish)

New evince is supposed to land in GNOME 2.26 to incorporate upstream fixes. Once gnome-desktop2-evince is built, this can be cut. Conflicts with Fedora evince -- need to do more analysis. Unlike abiword issues which involve configuration of code that is all upstream, sugar-evince carries patches that are not upstream. The first problem to solve is to get patches upsteam if possible. If this is hard, we'll figure something else out.  :)

We'll discover soon how hard it is: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Evince ;) Tomeu 09:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

  • All the changes are now in upstream Evince (and hence rawhide) so sugar-evince is now obsolete. There's a RHBZ 480729 to split the libs out of the main evince package so its smaller (a lot) but that's not a blocker. - PBR 2/3/09

sugar-presence-service

sugar-toolkit

sugar-update-control (smparrish)

This package is awaiting review. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4951, and http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/sugar-update-control;a=summary; c_scott's work. This depends heavily on infrastructure that may no longer be maintained, since it's a full standalone update mechanism. UPDATE: just scrapes the wiki for latest activities. It updates only activities. Relatively harmless.

sugar-* (Activities)

In rawhide already, but we need an owner to update them when upstream does releases.

  • I'm quite happy to do this. Just let me know what packages and I'll request co-maintainer on them - PBR 2/3/09

telepathy-glib-0.7.20-1.olpc4 (gregdek)

No patches -- a false fork. Should just be untagging.

  • The reason for this 'fork' was so they could get a later version than the one in F-10 for features. Obv not an issue in rawhide - PBR 2/3/09

Build hacks

Even after all packages are integrated into Fedora, there are likely a few hacks introduced when the OLPC image is built. We will need to identify these, describe them, and eliminate them if possible.

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