Cobus Hill wrote:
>
> Okay firstly this is for local-apps enabled workstations,
> I was thinking down the line of, say you have RPMS you want to install for the
>workstations it will be a lot easier to boot the workstation with a read-write
>environment, run rpm on the workstation. this will then expand the rpm to the
>correct directories and you can then let the workstation mount as read-only again,
>when your done.
>
> I know you can also force the rpm to install to a certain dircectory but there are a
>few rpms i have encountered that does not allow for this to happen.
>
Cobus,
consider that the LTSP terminals do not have an RPM database. Their
filesystem has been trimmed down to a minimum, deliberately. For this
to work, you will need to install rpm and everything it depends on into
/opt/ltsp/i386/.
This is an interesting idea; keep us posted on your work!
-David
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