[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.0 beta9 status

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Greetings,

After 8 days of restless development we are releasing beta 9 towards 
version 6.0 of OSGeoLive: [1], [2]

After our last release (beta7) we came across a blocker issue: 
remastersys, our method for creating iso files on all our previous 
releases, proved to be broken for Xubuntu 12.04. The result was to have 
a non-installable iso for beta8.
After contacting remastersys developers and lots of testing/debugging, 
unfortunately this was not resolved.

So we had to move to a new method to create our distribution, and what 
better way than the official Ubuntu method for spinoffs [3]. This was 
already planned for OSGeoLive 6.5 but we had to bring it in now.

We managed to hack the new method [4], [5] to be able to use our current 
installation scripts [6] without major changes, but there have been some 
failures [7] that we need to resolve.

The result of all this: we are now behind our release schedule [8], but 
we are fighting to make it on time.
For this we kindly ask all included projects in OSGeoLive to step up, 
test their application on the new iso [1] (as described in quickstart 
documentation [9]) and provide feedback here [7].

Best regards,
Angelos


[1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/osgeo-live-mini-6.0beta9.iso
[2] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/
[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
[4] 
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/build_chroot.sh
[5] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/inchroot.sh
[6] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin
[7] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
[8] 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE#gid=0 

[9] http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/overview/overview.html

-- 
Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos