[Pkg-ltsp-devel] merging ...

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

i just wanted to merge the recent debian changes and stumbled over some
weirdnesses ....

first, please dont do merges into debian from the edgy-ltsp branch, i
try to keep ubuntu package specifics out of the mainline branch, but
merge the debian main branch into the ltsp-mainline one ...
if the debian main branch pulls from edgy-ltsp this distinction is
somewhat pointless since i get back all stuff from edgy-ltsp into
mainline through you ...
(i.e. we wont do the tftpd transition this release, so i need to keep
the dependency there for edgy... we dont want our metapackages to
explode and dont use aptitude in ubuntu, so i dont use your recommends
in most places, the edgy-ltsp branch was intended to maintain only ths
differece from debian, so we dont always clash with the control files)

secondly i really love the new update-kernels stuff. but there is one
major breakage you introduce for all upgrading users by changin the
default tftp location ... we cant update the
existing /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf files right away (its a conffile)) 
i think that needs discussion how to provide a safe upgrade path even
for ubuntu users who rarely see the commandline before i can merge it :(

third i'd like to discuss the USR_LOCAL_SWAP parameter, in ubuntu we
will solve it with a simple udev rule:

/opt/ltsp/$ARCH/etc/udev/rules.d/86-ltsp.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="swap", RUN+="/sbin/mkswap %k
&& /sbin/swapon %k"

which should be waay faster than walking all partitions with sfdisk and
will be used automatically if a swap partition is avaliable, no need for
additional lts.conf parameters ;)

note that we will start using udev more and more in ubuntu where
appropriate for hardware related stuff (i.e. the new local device
support totally relies on udev) ... i know there are some major
differences between upstream/ubuntu udev and the debian version which i
dont have time to figure out, it would be nice if someone on the debian
side could look into that compatibility issues ...

ciao
	oli
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