Hi, On Sonntag, 5. Mai 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > ain't this because we had/have some i386 settings hardcoded? A few > > years ago this made sense, but today I do see how amd64 only setups > > are useful and desirable. > Yes, on amd64 we install an i386 LTSP chroot, based on the old truth > that all LTSP clients had less than 4 GiB RAM and some of them had > 32-bit CPUs, making it the most sensible choice to make sure as many > clients as possible would work out of the box. > > I have no idea if this is still true, or if all clients these days > have 64-bit CPUs or some of them have more than 4 GiB RAM. If so, > amd64 would be a more sensible choice for the LTSP chroot.
I've been thinking about this several times and came to the conclusion that I
believe it's best to
- continue to default to install an i386 chroot on amd64 installs _if
possible_, else install an amd64.
- document how to create such a chroot more expclicitly with these
constraints.
Comments?
> Changing it is easy, though. Would have to edit
> share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom/000-arch-detection
> in debian-edu-config.
ack.
> > I guess I shall setup jenkins tests for these.
for now I've just put it in the TODO there :/
cheers,
Holger
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