Some of us are from time to time reading that the timeline for releasing Debian-Sarge is pushed furter away for each day. For more update on the dates, you may look at the message to debian-devel-announce [1].
It would be really great to have a Sarge based Debian-edu when Debian releases Sarge. Well, I'm not really sure how far away we are, we still have to maintain the ltsp-packages outside the main-tree, but most of the other stuff should be almost ready. Therefore I Ask you to join us to test. There is for the moment 2 images that are built for Debian-edu: One that is autobuilt using whatever packages are availible for the debian-installer and for the image to be fetched: rsync -vtessh ftp.skolelinux.no:~ftp/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-1.raw ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-1.raw An otherone that I build whenever I make some changes to some package of some sort. rsync -vtessh ftp.skolelinux.no:~ftp/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-bzzware.raw ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-bzzware.raw To the later I also releases a description document with things I find that we need to fix [2]. This document is updated as things move along, and I have my own little script that I use to build the CD with. The source of the build-script is availible from alioth, And please enhance it, document it, use it or let it be. Everything I do goes back into CVS, or if I have to build a custom package (webmin-dhcpd is one example) the source and the debian-packages are put into ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/dists/sarge/local/binary-i386 You may see -x.edu.y packages there, which is debian-packages that are rebuilt (webmin is one) you may see +cvs2004MMDD, which is debian-edu-packages built from cvs at the given date. All cvs builds are tagged in cvs with version_M_min+cvsYYYYMMDD >From my document [2] I have this list of things that I want to have fixed. Soon all of them will be filed as bugs agains debian-edu-install[3], debian-edu-config[4] or debian-edu[5] in debian-bts: TODO ---- - Fix Partitioning of standalone - Remove Standalone Extras - Create Education-barebone - Fix Grub question (or maybe not) - Fix DNS bug with Munin - Reboot after everything is installed - Make the need for a last reboot go away - Fix so that KDE is the default for logging in an a clean account - Make pam use @other (and such) - Make KDE stop complaining so loud about missing soundcard (or is this really something else?) - Add missing Mozilla-locale-no-nb - Make Ragnar agree on where LTSP-kernels should be, and make him fix inetd, dhcpd and pxelinux.cfg/default - Make sure every package that existed on Venus is replaced with something else - Make sure it is possible to upgrade from venus to Sarge [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg00005.html [2] http://developer.skolelinux.no/dokumentasjon/debian-edu_sarge_installation.txt [3] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu-install [4] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu-config [5] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/
