Fedora packages for XO-1.5 distro

[Peter Robinson]

>> There's already an olpc-utils package in Fedora. I'm the current
>> maintainer of the package. Let me know how I can help, or you can
>> request to be added to the ACL here
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/olpc-utils and do
>> it yourself.
>
> Looks like that would be a good package to start with, I've requested
> the access.

Done.

>> Also can you add any RH BZ stuff you do as a blocker to the tracker
>> bug to make it easier to track
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462625
>
> OK. We don't have any yet.

Just a reminder ;-)

>> I would be surprised if dracut doesn't make it to rawhide soon as its
>> on the Feature list for F12. I'll poke some people here at FudCon to
>> try and find out the status.
>
> Yeah, but they probably don't plan to include it in F11. If you find
> them, please explain OLPC's plans to deploy this with the F11 XO-1.5
> build and hence our desires to see it in the F11 tree.
>
> When they add it to F12, they will be making it a replacement for
> mkinitrd, integrating it into the kernel RPM, and so on. They obviously
> won't do that for F11 and that's not what we want either. We'd just like
> it as a standard Fedora package which does nothing until someone
> executes /usr/bin/dracut from the command line to build an initramfs.

OK

>> I also noticed an updated openchrome driver hit F11 testing in the
>> last day or so, not sure if that has the changes you mention.
>
> Wow..Xavier rocks. It looks like it should work. Thanks for pointing
> this out!

Its worth enabling the updates-testing repo as it gets those sort of
fixes quite quickly, and is pretty stable. I enable it on all my
machines.

Peter