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

[Mike Dawson]

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.  

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.  

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. 

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.
> 
>