[Pkg-ltsp-devel] moving towards arch all

[Otavio Salvador]

Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> writes:

> Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 14:15 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:
>> i was wondering what folks thought of trying to make the ltsp source
>> package "Architecture: all"?
>> 
>> the only things that make the ltsp-client package architecture-dependent
>> is lp_server (for some sort of printer support), and getltsconfig.
>> 
> note that lp_server will have to die at some point, unles someone of us
> takes over upstream for lpr, lpr upstream is dead and obsolete since
> quite some time and lp_server is a direct ripoff iirc, so just adding
> cups stuff to the chroot and having startscripts that handle the setup
> could replace it.

I think that if we can manage to do this without lp_server might be
awesome also becuase will be less code to us to maintain. Have you
already tried it?

> during my speedtests for bootspeed improvements i found several
> slowdowns, getltscfg is one of them, it seems to parse the whole file
> for every variable it reads, it probably would make sense to just
> rewrite it in shell or python, so we'd have it arch all as well then :)

I agree with you. I think that python should be the best alternative.

One think that might improve the speed a lot is if we make a daemon
that when it starts it read the configuration file and then a client
that just ask for the parameters. That deamon can even run in server
allowing client just to ask for the need information.

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