Re: ltsp-server vs. syslinux (pxelinux.0)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Josh Dukes wrote:
> > Why not copy pxelinux.0 from /usr/lib/syslinux while setting up
> > the /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/* dirs? 

that's what debian and ubuntu do.

> > And speaking of that, why isn't the
> > dir structure under /var/lib/tftpboot with only ltsp kernel/img/inird
> > under the ltsp/<arch> dirs?

i don't really get what you're saying here...

> > Tftp gets used for lots of things. We even use pxe for other things.
> > Why should the ltsp packages focus so much on being stand-alone? 
> > I have the same issue with the debian/ubuntu version. It seems to me
> > that packaging the same data multiple times is just bad practice, no
> > matter how insignificant the data is. 

what data is packaged multiple times on ubuntu or debian?

the configuration is ltsp/<arch>/pxelinux.cfg/default ... and on
debian/ubuntu it's configured automatically to simply load ltsp. but
it's trivial if you need different configurations to actually just point
to pxelinux.0 at a different location, with a different
pxelinux.cfg/default. what actually goes into
ltsp/*/pxelinux.cfg/default rarely changes, so it wouldn't be much work
keeping that updated, or possibly even included on newer versions of
pxelinux.

> > I guess I just don't understand. Maybe it's because I missed the
> > discussion that lead to the current dir structure...

> Debian/Ubuntu have the same structure because we build from exactly the 
> same ltsp upstream.
 
> I suppose it could be copied from the system dir as part of 
> ltsp-update-kernels, but seriously is this a high priority problem?
 
> One possible issue with copying it from a common system dir is that that 
> common system dir might be different on different distros.

but that would be more similar to how ubuntu and debian handle it, so in
that sense, it would be more consistant across distros to merely support
different paths (if even needed, it's /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 on
debian).

live well,
  vagrant

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