[Debian-olpc-devel] Packaging eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) for debian

[David Farning]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Mike Dawson <mike at paiwastoon.com.af> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Actually if one downloads the source version of eXeLearning it has
> everything needed to build the .deb packages - I'm not myself that
> familiar with debian packaging.

Could you expand on the the steps you went through to build exe for ubuntu?

> Please note these gotcha's though:
>
> 1. Make sure to adjust the build file for packaging for Python2.6  -
> Python2.5 has been dropped from the latest version of Ubuntu amongst
> others AFAIK
>
> 2. There was a change in the naming of the package python-zopeinterface
> - this varies between different versions of Ubuntu.  To make the package
> install on either you need to modify the control file:
>
> python-zope.interface (>=3.0.0-6) | python-zopeinterface (>=3.0.0-6)
>
> I have put a fair few additions (extra idevices etc) and published them
> on a sourceforge project linked from www.paiwastoon.af/eldep - though I
> haven't yet got these upstream.

Thanks, I was just going to ask you for some samples.

> 3. There is sometimes a compatability problem between exe and Firefox
> 3.5 - this has been documented / can be googled.  The workaround at the
> moment is to download firefox 3.0 and then change the configuration
> manually.  I found with the python2.6 build and using Firefox 3.6 I get
> the Firefox menu that shouldn't appear however it does start / access
> the system as it should.

This has to do with the xul runner issue.  We will need to convert
this to webkit.

> Please don't hesitate to contact me for further assistance.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Regards,
>
> -Mike
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:44 +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
>> Kandarp,
>>
>>
>> I think your question is on packaging, where we are using a different
>> concurrency version control system, other than git. I think the steps
>> should remain the same. Community members, please confirm if there is
>> a difference?
>>
>>
>> Copying Mike on this memo, who can answer your questions related to
>> exelearning code structure.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Manu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Kandarp Kaushik <kandarp at seeta.in>
>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>
>>         I was trying to package eXe ( http://exelearning.org/wiki )
>>         for debian.
>>
>>
>>         eXe uses subversion for as the concurrency revision control
>>         system. More information at:
>>         http://exelearning.org/wiki/SourceControl
>>
>>
>>         It will help if someone could provide some pointers on how eXe
>>         should be packaged.
>>
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Kandarp.
>>
>>
>
>
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