Junichi Uekawa (Junichi Uekawa mikilab) wrote:
>On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:32:47 -0400
>Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>
>>I have three questions. First, when I chroot to
>>/var/lib/diskless/default/root and install new packages, /etc and /var
>>updates don't propagate to the host /etc and /var directories. Are
>>there plans to make this work -- for example, to have a
>>"diskless-update" script to update all of those dirs?
>>
>>
>I think that would be very difficult to implement, considering that
>the differences on each individual clients would be
>pretty difficult to track, to say the least.
>
Hmm... How about ending diskless-newimage with something like:
touch $diskless-rootdir/lastupdate
(I don't know what the real diskless-rootdir variable should be, nor
diskless-hostdirs below.) Then diskless-update could have something like:
for newconffile in \
`find $diskless-root/etc -newer $diskless-rootdir/lastupdate -print`; \
do \
for hostdir in $diskless-hostdirs; do \
cp -i $newconffile `echo $newconffile | sed s/$diskless-root/$hostdir/`;
done; \
done
Unfortunately, this wouldn't work for /var because it would copy things
like /var/run and /var/spool, which is bad.
Or one could look in $diskless-rootdir/var/lib/dpkg/info for new
.conffile files and use those to update the directories... Is there
some kind of hook mechanism for installing conffiles in dpkg?
>>Second, woody seems to have a new way of installing base using packages
>>in basedebs.tar instead of base.tgz. Are there plans to update diskless
>>accordingly, e.g. using dpkg --install --root?
>>
>>
>diskless-createbasetgz exists for creating base.tgz.
>It should be possible to run debootstrap on each run to
>diskless-newhost.
>
I see, that's cool. (Do you mean diskless-newimage instead of
diskless-newhost?)
>However, requiring diskless-createbasetgz to be called once,
>and using the resultant base.tgz is faster than requiring
>debootstrap to be ran on each time.
>
That makes sense.
>>Third, is there a way to make the console work so users can log in
>>there? I always get something like "id 1 respawning too fast, disabling
>>for 5 minutes".
>>
>>
>Init is in /sbin/init, AFAIK, and it is a shell script installed by
>diskless-image-{simple,secure} package.
>You may want to read it to see what might be causing it...
>and yes, it should probably be respawning too fast by the look of it.
>
I see. I guess it wasn't meant for console use. :-) Maybe the console
entries in inittab should be commented?
One could probably switch to runlevel 5 and run a *dm just fine for a
workstation cluster...
Well, this isn't my intended application, so I'll let somebody else
experiment with that.
>I haven't had much time to work with this package recently, and help would be
>appreciated.
>
Okay, we'll see what we can come up with.
Thanks again for a really nice package!
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