[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#537374: ltsp-client-core: When using NBD and Busybox is installed in the client, lts.conf is not downloaded

[Vagrant Cascadian]

tags pending 537374
thanks

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:46:14PM +0200, Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote:
> I tried using NBD root (which, sadly, is much under-documented) 

i just happen to have been working on NBD root all day today...

it isn't nearly as well tested as NFS root, and much of it could be implemented
more cleanly.

> and read
> about the really useful feature to pull lts.conf via TFTP, so you don't
> have to rebuild the root image again and again. Unfortunately I didn't
> get it to work at first. While debugging the initramfs I noticed that
> "tftp" calls the busybox tftp and not the one the hook script put into
> /bin/tftp. Since the syntax of those tools is totally different, the
> transfer failed every time. I would suggest to include the full path in
> the initramfs script.

thanks for the report! i've noticed that issue in the past and didn't really
look into it.

committed fix in upstream bzr. should upload a new version to debian unstable
soon.

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