Re: Please help testing Ubuntu's future LTSP

On 02/05/2012 09:29 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Over the last week, thanks to some coordinated effort of Vagrant and
> I, Debian and Ubuntu finally share a single version of ldm, meaning
> only the ltsp package is now different between Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> I'm not planning on improving this situation much for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> but I'm planning on getting a new LTSP in there anyway.
> This will be what I'll need to support for the 5 years of this LTS
> release, so I'd really appreciate any help in making it as solid as
> possible.
>
> Yesterday I took a snapshot of our current ltsp trunk and uploaded it
> to my PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~stgraber/+archive/experimental/+packages
>
> I'd encourage people to install an up to date Precise system and then
> add this PPA.
> This can be done with:
> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stgraber/experimental
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get install ltsp-server-standalone
> sudo rm -Rf /opt/ltsp
> sudo ltsp-build-client

Replace that last one by:
sudo ltsp-build-client --copy-sources --accept-unsigned-packages

I'll put the commands on the pad too so it's easier to update :)

>
> Anyone who doesn't understand what the commands above will do, really
> shouldn't even try these packages :)
>
> I have created an Etherpad pad at:
> http://pad.ubuntu.com/ltsp-server-precise
>
> It'd be great if anyone testing these packages could log the
> discovered issues there. Please don't bother reporting bugs at this
> stage and feel free to add any previously reported bug to this list if
> it matters to you.
>
> I'd really appreciate it if these who helped with the
> initramfs-scripts.d, udev and ltsp_config.d could test these packages
> and make sure everything is working using the new stuff.
> I admit having used grep through the upstream branch to try and figure
> out that stuff, so I'm far from sure I got it right.
>
> Anyone who's been involved with major changes in trunk recently should
> have a look at the upstream issues list on the pad and when possible,
> fix them in trunk and comment in the pad.
>
> I'll try to rebase my packages on the current trunk and do appropriate
> packaging changes as people comment in there.
>
> I'm hoping to tag a new upstream LTSP, maybe even LTSP 5.3 once we're
> done with the tests and then upload it to Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> - --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com


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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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