Thanks Andy, Apparently not a hot topic for anyone else! :-)
John On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Andy Figueroa <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question. I've had a small seven client LTSP computer lab running for > about 18 months now. It's running on Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04). I have upgraded > the chroot several times just to keep up-to-date for the sake of security. > (apt-get update then apt-get upgrade following the instructions in the > Edubuntu handbook) > > Since you asked the question, I've just done it again a few minutes ago - > good timing - since school starts back again tomorrow after the Christmas > holiday. > > I was surprised to see that the last time I did this and rebuilt the image > was in February 2009. The old i386.img was 291954688 and the new image is > 350814208. No apparent issues. Tomorrow we'll see if the clients boot all > right. :-) > > I'm using/booting kernel vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic although -26 has been > installed during regular updates. > > Andy Figueroa > > john wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Sometimes I see a patch come down the the pipeline that makes me >> wonder if I should be updating the file that lives in my chroot (the >> recent tzdata file patch, for example). My normal practice is never to >> update my chroot (on the "if it ain't broke..." principle), although I >> do sometimes add software (most recently ntp for cron powered >> shutodowns) to the chroot image. >> >> My understanding is that one of the big reasons for the move to LTSP5 >> was to integrate the native package management features into the >> chroot environment under the theory that folks really wanted to keep >> those environments up to date. >> >> So my question is: do you upgrade your chroot? Why or why-not? >> >> Thanks! >> >> John >> > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
