[Hamara-devel] Moving toward a sugam alpha

[Vikas Tara]

On 16/06/15 16:25, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 16/06/15 11:28, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 16/06/15 10:57, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>> Just putting these few issues here in case anyone has time to help 
>>> debugging / fixing them. I would be happy to release a pre-alpha at 
>>> the point the iso is installable.
>>>
>>> To get there we need to close off at least:
>>>
>>> 1. Raju reported that the window and mouse pointers are behaving 
>>> strangely
>>>
>>> There seems to be a problem with the openbox window manager running 
>>> in the live instance.
>>>
>>> If you manually run openbox --replace in a terminal - then things 
>>> look much better!
>>
>> We do have a wrapper script to handle this at 
>> /usr/bin/openbox-hamara-sugam but it's not being called or it's 
>> failing for some reason.
>>
>>>
>>> 2. The iso should be installable
>>>
>>> Currently debian installer fails to run if you click the desktop link.
>>>
>>> Running is on the command line shows that it complains about not 
>>> being able to find a valid initrd.
>>>
>>> I am debugging this atm.
> OK - so the problem (caused by us) is that our paths to initrd differ 
> from the debian defaults.
>
> They're is a plugin for debian-installer-launcher called "live" - 
> correcting the path there gets it to run.
>
> We will probably need to build our own version of this package based 
> on debian sources - as we need a few changes in it.
>
> Will take a look at that next.
Have created a new helper script that patches debian source with the 
path changes and creates a new package.

The new package has been pushed to the devel repo and a new iso built 
that contains that package.

Debian installer now starts properly from the desktop icon!