[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#389276: ltsp-client-builder fail when there is no network (CD install)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Vagrant Cascadian]
>> 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.

I would guess testing with some ftp or http connection with a timeout.

>> Another could be to disable the security apt source when
>> installing from CD.
> 
> how do you determine it's a CD install?

Not sure.  Look at the .disk/ directory, perhaps?

> 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.

Yes, that would move the problem elsewhere, at least.   :)

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen