Re: LTSP roadmap, todolist ?

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra-GeWIH/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Di, 2008-08-05 at 23:23 +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:17:05PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> > > I have some TODO on internal wiki, the most outstanding part
>> > > of which is "provide infrastructure to allow for pluggable
>> > > transports, e.g. NFS/NBD root and XDMCP/LDM/RDP session".
>> > what do you plan there beyond the pluggable mechanisms we have
>> > in place since more than a year ?
>>
>> Catching up with situation first, then :-)
>>
> in ubuntu and debian you just use BOOT=nbd vs BOOT=nfs in
> itramfs.conf ... not sure where fedora is at atm and i dont know their
> initramfs managing tools (gentoo is happy to have *something* working
> now, i guess they are not at a point yet to care about features and suse
> does their own fork in kiwi with teh kiwi tools) but the scripts that
> are used by ubuntu and debian should be pretty straightforward to plug
> into any other initramfs builders ... if you have patches to them feel
> free to send them so we can include them ;)
>

Kiwi netboot image reads the config file in
/srv/tftpboot/KIWI/config.MAC(or default), it uses that information to
do nbdroot or nfsroot, so users do not have to rebuild initrd to
switch. To make this simple, we have provided this in
/etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp

## Type:        list(NFS,NBD)
## Default:     NBD
#Set the image type, NFS and NBD supported, NBD is default
IMAGETYPE="NBD"

After changing IMAGETYPE, user have to run "kiwi-ltsp-setup -c" to
configure kiwi file.

Regarding our TODO list, we are maintaining rapidly shrinking list
here: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP. I'll be
happy to put up anyplace common on ltsp.org.

Cheers

-J

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