Status-Blogging :-)

Hi

It's late again here in germany - but I want to share some details of  
my work on openSUSE-Education with you. I hope some information could  
be useful ;-)


* Branched openSUSE_11.1 build target in OBS, as Factory/11.1 is  
splitted up now.

* adapted READMEs to our new OBS layout

* adapted content file of the add-on to the new format, so YaST can  
detect it again

* Found an old bug in the solver, which prevents me from using scripts  
for creating the 11.1 add-on: currently the solver isn't able to  
handle whitespaces in directory names. So I have to walk through the  
generated packages.* files and remove lines containing whitespaces  
manually, re-zip them, re-generate checksums and re-sign everything.  
:-( bnc#450286 )

* fixed fbreader (just missing libexpat-devel)

* trying to fix LabPlot (first some gcc-errors, now filelist)

* fixing bibletime

* preparing netbeans update

* find and package missing perl-modules for koha (currently I'm at >30  
new perl packages building in devel:languages:perl and see a light at  
the end of the tunnel). I will _aggregate all needed perl-packages  
into the education repository later. This way, everybody finds what he  
expects in "his" repo and we avoid double builds of the same source.

* we've over 210 succeeded packages, but still 26 build failures. Any  
help is welcome!

* packaged a first version of "scratch" (http://scratch.mit.edu/) -  
needs a small rework to use the already available Squeak package (I  
noticed to late, that this package already exists)

* don't be surprised about the "images" repository in the education  
project. We already have a  
"_product:openSUSE-Education-Addon-dvd5-DVD-i586_x86_64" package now -  
and this package produces a  
"openSUSE-Education-Addon-dvd5-DVD-i586_x86_64.kiwi" file which can be  
used for building openSUSE-Education with one single kiwi call! (see  
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Product_Definition/Handling for  
details )

* after the discussion in the last meeting, I added all maintainers of  
the isv:hp:education project also as maintainers of the education  
project, so their fixes can be integrated directly in our  
sourcepackages.

* cleaned up the "education" projects in OBS: now only "education" and  
"isv:hp:education" are listed as "real" projects. (beside the home  
projects - I've written emails to some people having interesting  
packages in their home projects - everybody on this list feel free to  
invite any OBS-user to join this list and the openSUSE-Education Team  
if you find interesting packages in his home-project :)

* worked together with Peter Varkoly on a first set of Open School  
Server packages in the home:openschoolserver project. These packages  
will be the base for the Open School Server based on SLES 11. This  
includes the YaST-Module to setup the OSS, the Webfrontend and  
base-scripts as well as preconfigured Joomla, Moodle, openXchange and  
egroupware packages. Extis will give support for these packages, later.

* tried to download the second Live-CD from anubisg1 - but it looks  
like the server doesn't like me... Andrea: I've setup a rsync-server  
on opensuse-education. Perhaps it's better if you can upload new ISO  
images yourself... :-) Account details later via PM

* added a public rsync module, so people can also download our  
official repositories on www.opensuse-education.org via rsync. If  
we're making use of the update-channels for 11.0 and 11.1, this would  
perhaps be very useful. Just try something like "rsync -n  
[email protected]::download/" to check.

With kind regards,
Lars

PS: rsync from OBS is still running, so I will finish the Beta2  
Release for 11.1 tomorrow.

With kind regards,
Lars