On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:07:43PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:12:31PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > Per http://www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.html#updating-chroot, the > > instructions for updating the chroot on a Debian system are: > > > > sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 > > sudo apt-get update (I don't think sudo is needed, though, since you are > > chrooting as the root user) > > sudo mount -t proc /proc /proc (again, sudo is not needed) > > sudo apt-get upgrade (same here) > > exit > > indeed. as mentioned by ogra, ditch the extra calls to sudo, or call > 'sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386' with every command. > > > Is it necessary to umount /proc before exiting, or is that not required? > > i'd definitely recommend unmounting it, yes. > > also, be sure when you run apt-get upgrade, that the environment variable > LTSP_HANDLE_DAEMONS=false is set, otherwise, any upgraded daemons will start > inside the chroot. > > so, just for completeness, i'll add a few more important steps: > > sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 > # alternately: > # su -c 'chroot /opt/ltsp/i386' > > # from here on out, you're in the chroot as root > mount -t proc /proc /proc > > # make sure daemons don't start > export LTSP_HANDLE_DAEMONS=false > > # update package lists > apt-get update > > # install available package updates > apt-get upgrade > # alternately: > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > # update the ltsp network boot configuration files if needed > /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels > > # unmount proc, as it really shouldn't be there. > umount /proc > > # exit the chroot > exit > > # update the server's /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/ > ltsp-update-kernels > > i'll write up some wrapper scripts to handle this stuff, as there some issues > with the above steps. proc should probably only be mounted and umounted if not > already mounted, for example. > Cool, thanks everyone for your answers.
What's the proper method for me to help revise the documentation? I see a note on the wiki page about using an XML editor. I've never used one -- could someone recommend one? Maybe I should wait until after Vagrant's helper scripts are done before I revise the docs... -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
