[gnome-love] Re: jhbuild-related project

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

> From: Baishampayan Ghose <b ghose gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [gnome-love] jhbuild-related project
> To: Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>,    Gnome-Love
>         <gnome-love gnome org>
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> Hello Luis,
>
> > It was pointed out to me in IRC that lots of people are having trouble
> > with jhbuild.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
> That was me ;-)
You're not the only one :-)

> > 1) I'm definitely working on getting hardware to do a permanent public
> > tinderbox on, ideally with several operating systems in parallel. In
> > the meantime, I can say today that as of this morning, tinderbox is
> > green- everything builds.
>
> That is a great news! It'd be wonderful to have an officially
> maintained tinderbox with multiple OSes/distros and arch. Really
> looking forward to that.
At last ! As a newcomer it took me an incredible amount of time to have 
it building...

> > So... if anyone wants to take a default install of those OSes, and do
> > this work and dump it in the wiki, it would be pretty awesome, I
> > think, and very helpful to lots of newbies.
>
> I will do the Ubuntu part. Can you set up an wiki in live.gnome.org
> where I can put the notes?
> Anybody wants to do the same with FC, Gentoo, SuSE ?
> Regards,
> -bg-
I apply for the Mandriva part...

You can also give a look to the work of the gnom bangalore team:
http://gnomebangalore.org/wiki/index.php/Jhbuild_issues

It helped me when I was in trouble with jhbuild errors. Maybe it's the 
next step after this one.

Regards,

Luis Menina