[Pkg-ltsp-devel] vagrant's TODO list

[Otavio Salvador]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at freegeek.org> writes:

> today, i got the packages the pere has built (0.71debian0.pere.1) to
> work relatively easily with sid, etch and sarge. 
>
> deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/ sarge local
>
> it only needed three changes for etch and sid:
>
> needed to revert the code in ltsp-build-client that adds
> MODULES=netboot, because it is not yet in debian's initramfs-tools
> packages.

The patch for it was already sent?

> i also had to pass --late-packages linux-image-486 on the commandline,
> rather than installing kernel-image-netbootable (which depends on
> initrd-netboot-tools).

Ah, OK.

> otavio also encountered a bug (which i can confirm) with passwd handling
> which doesn't happen if you use --prompt-rootpass, but does if you leave
> the default with a disabled root password. i don't know if this is a bug
> in passwd, or in something one of our scripts.

I didn't test with new shadow package yet but can do that until the
end of week.

> for some of the other issues i'm looking at and thinking about, here's
> my TODO list at the moment:

I saw a lot of good things there. I think would be better if you had
your TODO list in your branch so it would be merged with our main
branch.

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