Re: gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library (gEDA chroot test)

[Igor2 <igor2-at-NOSPAMinno_dot_bme_dot_hu>]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Stuart Brorson wrote:

<snip>

>I *will* promise you this:  I will run your installer through my
>test/validation process.  That is, I have several spare machines which
>I load up with various newish distros and run my isntaller on them to
>verify that it works & doesn't crash.  I will be very happy to do the
>same thing with your installer.

Thanx, that would be a great first step. I've made a test version, a proof
of concept. It has a very old version of gEDA, lacks some software you
listed but I think it could be used to check whether it would work at
all. I have only Debians and it worked on Debian. Url:

http://inno.bme.hu/~igor2/geda-test

Btw I was wrong about no dependency, it depends on one critical
thing: local X must accept connections on a TCP port. Debian had it turned
off by default; I'm not sure about other distros, but this may be the only
part that would need distribution-specific scripts (to modify X
configuration). Alternatively if someone knows a better way to connect X
when local UNIX sockets won't work, please tell. 

And about the size... It's over 200 megs unpacked. Yeah, it's _huge_, but
it contains everything, from ground up... Actually it's a small Debian
without a kernel.

<snip>

>This sounds like a Knoppix-type package.  Or am I wrong?  Anyway, we
>have talked about a Knoppix-type package for gEDA since Al Davis
>proposed the idea at least 2 years ago.  It's a good idea, and would
>be a welcome addition to the downloads page.  It's just that nobody
>has done it yet, so that's why we don't have one.  But I think it
>would be great to have one!

Unfortunately I have no idea about Knoppix-type packages so I don't know
if my tarball is similar to them or not :)

Igor2




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