LtspUpdateManagerIntegration

Revision 5 as of 2007-05-06 10:38:50

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Summary

Currently keeping an LTSP client chroot up to date or upgradint it to the next version requires commandline tasks from the adiminstrator. This spec shall define a way to integrate update management with the provided distro tools (for a start only integration with the gnome update manager will be discussed, but a kubuntu solution should be kept in mind while defining the implementation). Beyond security update management also dist-upgrader integration should take place so the client chroot gets upgraded to a new release automatically.

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BoF agenda and discussion

We'd like to:

  • Update chroots that have similar architectures as the server
  • Mount /proc as necessary
  • Look in ltsp-update-kernels, for logic to decide if somethings a chroot
  • set the environment variable LTSP_HANDLE_DAEMONS="false" to avoid restarting anything in the chroot when doing updates.
  • If the kernel's been updated, run ltsp-update-kernels. If it's not easy to do this, then simply run it by default every time (wasteful, but shouldn't introduce any problems)
  • Implement using an "ltsp-chroot" wrapper script.

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