On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:25:05PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:30:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > Are there any backports of the latest LTSP stuff available for Debian
> > Lenny on an amd64 architecture?
> 
> not yet, although the server-side stuff shouldn't need any changes; you should
> be able to use the ltsp-server*, ldm-server and ltspfs packages from squeeze 
> or
> sid. if you're building an i386 chroot, then you can just use the i386 
> packages
> for the chroot as you would for usual ltsp backports
> http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto/Lenny-With-Backports by additionally
> specifying the arch:
> 
>   ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --foo --bar
> 
> if you're doing something that actually needs an amd64 chroot(fancy fat 
> clients
> with tons of ram?), i'm hoping to get ltsp versions uploaded to backports.org
> someday, which may likely include amd64.
> 
Thanks, I'll give it a try.  I'm running a 64 bit server w/ i386
clients.  I want to get the improved local device support, which I don't
think is included in the Lenny packages.

> you could always grab the backported sources yourself and re-build the 
> packages
> from source, too. i'm fairly certain that the current ltsp packages are
> trivially backportable, as in they only need to be rebuilt. hmmm... i should
> make a server that does that automatically...
> 
If you have some quick instructions on how to do that, I'd appreciate
it!  I've read up on it, but never did it successfully.  I think I got
confused by too many conflicting how-to's.

-Rob

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