[Pkg-ltsp-devel] more ltsp-update-kernels fun

[Otavio Salvador]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at freegeek.org> writes:

> with all this work on ltsp-update-kernels, i realized that we could
> greatly simplify the code, putting almost all of it client-side (which
> i've done some already), requiring almost no modifications
> server-side(except possibly for yaboot), simply by symlinking
> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp to /opt/ltsp, and configuring things (PXE,
> kernel, etc.) to look in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/ARCH/boot/

Nice.

> i've tested this with atftpd, and it seems to work(i think ubuntu uses
> tftpd-hpa). i know some tftp servers or configurations don't allow
> symlinking outside of the tftp dir, maybe bind mounting would work in
> those cases. yaboot(for powerpc) needs to be in the top-level of the
> tftp directory for some reason, so we'd have to handle that server-side,
> though it's usually a one-time configuration.

I never got atftpd to work it's always slow. I use ftpd-hpa without
problems for long time.

> doing it this way means that any time a chroot installs a new kernel,
> the changes are automatically available, rather than having to run the
> server-side ltsp-update-kernels script to propegate the changes to the
> tftp directory.

We need to check this 'cause would be good to have every arch working
same way to avoid arch-specific issues as possible.

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