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

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 20:34 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:
> 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:
you evil evil guy :P
(wow, thats cool and will help a lot with fat clients and local apps i
guess)

> 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.
i have also plans to work on ltsp-update-kernels and especially on that
feature (first of all to get mknbi working out of the box in ubuntu, but
since we talked about splitting ltsp-update-kernels before that was on
my plan as well)

ciao
	oli
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