package ltsp-server clone 480661 -1 retitle -1 ltsp-server: Please package bootstrapping scripts separate from daemon recommendations severity -1 wishlist thanks
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:46:05PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
my *intent* is that the ltsp-server-standalone provides a complete LTSP server,
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the ltsp-server package provides a basic ltsp server,
Thanks for the clarification. I understand now the relevancy of both packages.
If you do not want to expand with a new binary package, then how about lowering daemon dependencies to suggests for the ltsp-server package?
...and therefore agree that it does not make sense to relax dependencies of ltsp-server: It has a purpose different from -standalone.
if those unusual cases [of installations without daemons] were more common, i'd consider splitting it into a separate package.
The relevancy of bootstrapping tools being available untied to daemons is tied to bug #480664 (support for bootstrapping alien archs using qemu): I believe it not unusual to (want to[1]) serve LTSP for multiple archs from a single host. And when you need an alien host to bootstrap LTSP for alien thin clients, I believe it makes sense to offer a package for that purpose.
Forking this bugreport as a wishlist request for such package. :-) Kind regards, - Jonas[1] I suspect that actual non-x86 LTSP environments are uncommon currently, as older newworld macs are tricky to netboot due to bugs in OpenFirmware (and newer macs are too expensive for use as thin clients). I am looking into this and hope to have an improved dhcpd.conf for you shortly. :-)
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