[Pkg-ltsp-devel] features i'd like to work on

[Vagrant Cascadian]

i discussed with otavio a little at debconf6 some features i'd like to
see.  since these are fairly significant changes, i'd like to hear some
feedback before spending lots of energy implementing them.

the first one is a wrapper around chroot that does special things like
mounting /proc and /sys and /tmp in the chroot, as well as setting
environment variables that prevent daemons from starting within the
chroot on the server. then, instead of calling chroot directly, our
scripts can use this wrapper script. we could even set up some alias
commands for commonly used things like apt-get pretty easily. this is a
feature i've implemented in lessdisks that i would really like to see
for ltsp(and can probably even copy some of the code).  oh, i couldn't
resist, i've already implemented this:
http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr-archives/ltsp/vagrant-ltsp-chroot

i'd also like to split some of the functionality found in
ltsp-update-kernels get split into the ltsp-client package, and have it
run chrooted(or in the case of a different architecture, on a privledged
client with write access of some sort). then the ltsp-update-kernels
package would mostly just copy files into place(and maybe run chrooted
scripts if the architecture is supported), rather than the special
network-bootable preparations(mknbi, yaboot, netabootwrap, etc). this
way we could get support for multiple architectures.