[Pkg-ltsp-devel] almost ready for upload

[Vagrant Cascadian]

i think the pkg-ltsp main branch is ready for upload, though i'd like to
consider a couple more features... :)

the initramfs-tools bugs seem to be fixed in both 0.69b(etch) and
0.73b(sid), though it still is a little flaky. i can write a workaround
plugin if it comes to that.


there are a couple features i'd like to merge:

http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr-archives/ltsp/vagrant-new-plugins

this makes the plugin loading based purely off of the plugin
filename(alphanumeric), rather than first loading common plugins,
followed by vendor (debian/ubuntu/other) plugins.

it also allows the vendor to override a plugin in common. as a bonus
feature at almost no extra cost, the admin can override plugins in
/etc/ltsp/plugins. this makes it much simpler to figure out what order
the plugins get loaded in, and do simple workarounds for testing
purposes.

i haven't experienced any real problems using the new plugin order
installing debian (hopefully the same is the case for ubuntu), so i
think (and really hope) we can merge vagrant-new-plugins.


http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr-archives/ltsp/vagrant-ldm

allows logging into an alternate server by specifying user at server in the
username field. it's a pretty simple patch, and would make it much more
flexible in locations with multiple application servers. i haven't
tested it, and don't know if there are corner-cases in which it could
cause weird bugs.


http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr-archives/ltsp/vagrant-update-kernels

this splits some of the ltsp-update-kernels code into the ltsp-client
package, fixes problems with multiple installs in /opt/ltsp (i.e.
powerpc + i386 + amd64), and makes the package dependencies on netboot
code architecture-specific.  there's a few bugs i'm working on fixing,
and hopefully should be ready in a few days.


http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr-archives/ltsp/vagrant-ltsp-devel

this contains most of the above mentioned patches merged all together.


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  vagrant