Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: GNU project preference?

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:35:49PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:47:28AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> Some of the default tools in gNewSense are non-GNU projects, even though
> >> a GNU-project exists that implements the same tool.  Wouldn't it be nice
> >> if gNewSense preferred the GNU tools when possible?
> >> 
> >> For example:
> >> 
> >> * /usr/bin/telnet - this is NetKit but GNU InetUtils exists
> >> * /usr/bin/ftp - this is NetKit but GNU InetUtils exists
> >> * /bin/ping - this is NetKit but GNU InetUtils exists
> >
> > I'm making those the default.  Will be effective next time we resync with
> > the bazaar repo.
> 
> Great!
> 
> I spent some time learning live-helper..  Will things work if I point it
> to the metad repository?  Is your work any near a point where you can
> publish step-by-step instructions how to build a livecd for gnewsense
> metad?

live-helper should work, but I haven't got around to using it.  If you can
test it and produce images out of it, that'd be quite useful.

We still need Ubiquity so users can install metad from a live CD, though.

-- 
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