[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#389276: ltsp-client-builder fail when there is
no network (CD install)
Vagrant Cascadian
vagrant at freegeek.org
Mon Sep 25 17:36:50 UTC 2006
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Package: ltsp-client-builder
> Version: 0.93debian1
> Severity: important
>
> When trying to use use the ltsp udeb to install the client environment
> using an etch CD (the Debian-Edu/etch CD), it fail because the
> security.debian.org apt source is unavailable. The CD install is done
> without network configured, and apt fail when it tries to connect to
> the security source.
right.
> A fix could be to only enable the security apt source if the server is
> reachable.
how can we determine if the server is reachable? my first inclination is
to use ping, but not all servers respond to ping.
> Another could be to disable the security apt source when
> installing from CD.
how do you determine it's a CD install?
> I see this problem with version 0.93debian1, and a quick lock in the
> source for 0.99debian2 indicate that the problem is present there too.
we could also have a debconf question for ltsp-client-builder that
passes "--security-mirror none" as an argument to ltsp-build-client,
which could be preseeded.
live well,
vagrant
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