On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Fabrizio Carrai wrote: > Can somebody explain me what the lts-build-client really does ? According to > the man, the command with no parameters build a client chroot using the server > distribution (please confirm that). > > What if I specify a --dist parameter ? > > > --dist distribution > Distribution : Sets the distribution to be installed in the > client chroot. Defaults to the running distribution. > > > Is the distro downloaded and installed ? If so, where is the list of known > distro and where they are downloaded from ?
The implementation for "ltsp-build-client --dist" varies by which distribution you use. For the most part it is used for selecting particular releases of the same linux distribution. On Ubuntu systems, valid values would be lucid, precise, trusty, etc. On Debian systems valid values are squeeze, wheezy, jessie, sid, etc. For Debian/Ubuntu, it roughly correlates to debootstrap's scripts found in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts. It also is used to populate the chroot's /etc/apt/sources.list with the appropriate values. Since Ubuntu and Debian are fairly close, you might be able to install one from the other, but you'll need to force the VENDOR used. For example, on an Ubuntu server: VENDOR=Debian ltsp-build-client --dist wheezy or on a Debian server: VENDOR=Ubuntu ltsp-build-client --dist precise Mint is a little odd, in that it's essentially Ubuntu with some extra packaging and settings, so it's technically implemented as an Ubuntu variant in ltsp-build-client. I can't speak for how the other linux distros work... live well, vagrant
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