[gcompris-devel] 0install feeds with v9

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mercredi 10 février 2010 à 01:06 +0000, Aleksey Lim a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I've finally manged to package GC to 0install.
> There are several methods to install GC:
> 
> * download and run fully bundled GC
>     * http://download.sugarlabs.org/services/gcompris/bundles/gcompris-9.1-1.sh
>       65M w/o voices
>     * http://download.sugarlabs.org/services/gcompris/bundles/gcompris-full-9.1-1.sh
>       114M with voices
> 
>     NOTE: there is an issue w/ updating Gnome menu after installing
>     packages, just open menu menu editor to show newly added menu items
> 
> * install 0install-injector (be warned I had to patch 0install, so it's
>   different to upstream project)
>   http://download.sugarlabs.org/services/zeroinstall-injector/bundles/zeroinstall-injector-44-16.sh
>   (follow http://0install.net/injector-using.html tutorials to know how
>   to use 0install)
> 
>   and use feeds:
>     * http://services.sugarlabs.org/gcompris
>       w/o voices
>     * http://services.sugarlabs.org/gcompris/full.xml
>       with voices
> 
>   Data and voices live in separate feeds, so after downloading 1st feed,
>   running 2nd won't download 65M of data once more - only voices for 60M
> 
> GC binaries contain
> * i486 and x86_64 arches
> * linked against libpython25.so and libpython26.so
> * librsvg and libxml, so GC could be run even on 2008 year distro
> 
> I'm planing to make per activity packages to let run each activity just
> by downloading 2-3M(but w/o voices).
> 

Sound great, I am please we can provide an easy to install binary for
the GNU/Linux folks who don't have or don't want to way for the
distribution packagers.

Is there something I can commit to make it easier to maintain a 0install
version ?

Bruno.