[Server-devel] automatic olpc-update from XS
Hi, Has anyone looked into making the XS serve automatic OS updates to XO over the network? I know about http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync but it does not really explain how the XOs perform the update... Am I right in guessing that currently some voodoo must be run on the XO to get olpc-update looking at the XS, and then it must be triggered manually on each XO? If so, has anyone investigated the work needed to publish an update which the XOs will automatically update using the olpc-update --auto cronjob that is already in place? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Mass olpc-update via XS?
Dear XS folks, Daniel Drake, currently in Paraguay, wants to try implementing the procedure described in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Mass_olpc-update via XSen (using DNS to redirect the XOs' theft-deterrence protocol requests to the local XS.) However, after briefly scanning the wiki, I noticed that we have http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:Lease_and_update_server http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-activation http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync but no sign of an XS-ified theft deterrence protocol server. Now, to the best of my (limited) knowledge, there is one usefully complete implementation of the protocol, http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/act-server;a=summary which was deployed in production at antitheft.laptop.organd activation.laptop.org and used to update several thousand G1G1'07 machines. (The installation of the code on those machines is, as usual, thoroughly documented internally at Machine:antitheft and Machine:activation pages, for those with access; some small bits of censorship /are/ needed before publication.) In conclusion, do you currently know any problems that would prevent merging whatever packages he and I create for his XSen (probably based on Scott's code) into the main XS tree, assuming that we provide suitable documentation alongside them? Anyone got any better ideas about how to accomplish our goal? Thanks, Michael ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] IRC channel/using ejabberdctl
Hi Martin, I went into the log files and realized that the domain had a schoolserver tacked in front of my domain name, which solved the previous problem; apparently I was trying to create an account for a server that didn't really exist. The specific domain name I was trying to use was olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.org, but I think it's now schoolserver.olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.org. I'm now running into another problem in this step. Now I'm using ejabberdctl register admin schoolserver.olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.org admin and getting the error RPC failed on the node ejabb...@e1534: nodedown I also attached the log file. (If you want I can also paste it; it's a rather large file) Do you have any idea what this might be caused by? Thank you so much for your help! Yifan On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yifan, This is the right place to ask for help. Tell us a bit more about the steps you are following after the initial installation is complete. some more specific questions - what domain did you pass to domain_config ? - can you send the ejabberd log? it is in /var/log/ejabberd/ cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ejabberd.log Description: Binary data ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] IRC channel/using ejabberdctl
I am having a similar problem. There seems to be a discrepancy between the host/domain names between the server and ejabberd. I would really appreciate clarification of the conventions for this. Thanks. Gerald 2009/2/18 Yifan yifan@students.olin.edu Hi Martin, I went into the log files and realized that the domain had a schoolserver tacked in front of my domain name, which solved the previous problem; apparently I was trying to create an account for a server that didn't really exist. The specific domain name I was trying to use was olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.org, but I think it's now schoolserver.olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.org. I'm now running into another problem in this step. Now I'm using ejabberdctl register admin schoolserver.olpcnetworkserver.cfs.mass.orgadmin and getting the error RPC failed on the node ejabb...@e1534: nodedown I also attached the log file. (If you want I can also paste it; it's a rather large file) Do you have any idea what this might be caused by? Thank you so much for your help! Yifan On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yifan, This is the right place to ask for help. Tell us a bit more about the steps you are following after the initial installation is complete. some more specific questions - what domain did you pass to domain_config ? - can you send the ejabberd log? it is in /var/log/ejabberd/ cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I need to append method=hd:LABEL=XSRepo:/iso to the same line, Can you change this line in the patch from: sed -i -e 's/cdrom:/hd:LABEL=XSRepo:/g' $USBMNT/$SYSLINUXPATH/isolinux.cfg I folded the second part of your patch (which I had dropped yesterday, sorry!) with this change in the sed line. Actually, I changed the sed line a bit to only add method if it's not there. If it's there, we try to replace it if it was method=cdrom. See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=commitdiff;h=aae67834bd1f450cf365349dca02968483842535 cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jerry je...@vonau.ca wrote: User impression doesn't count? ;-) Kind of throws fully automated installs out the window. To support installs to CF or from the network, anaconda needs to be patched for F9, is installing to a XO on hold? or are you looking to move to F10? It counts, and of course it matters. And very happy that you're helping me with it. Are the anaconda RPMs with the added sleep good for me to grab? I'm looking to skip F10, hoping that F11 will be more worthwhile -- almost none of our probs are solved in F10, so it's pointless rebase churn... That would depend on if there is any movement by fedora on official supporting of installs from usb... ;-) I wonder how many other people are using mkusbinstall outside of us? Ahh... On a side note unless you use the other features of mkslim, the need for mkslim might go away for F11. Yes, seen noise about that in the anaconda list. Feather up you cap - after much pushback they realised what a big fat waste some stuff in the images dir is. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:06 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jerry je...@vonau.ca wrote: User impression doesn't count? ;-) Kind of throws fully automated installs out the window. To support installs to CF or from the network, anaconda needs to be patched for F9, is installing to a XO on hold? or are you looking to move to F10? It counts, and of course it matters. And very happy that you're helping me with it. Are the anaconda RPMs with the added sleep good for me to grab? Should be, I tested what was there a few time on a XO. First time ran though to completion, but I've yet to write the part to create the olpc.fth file in %post in the ks.cfg. The rest blew up with some weird kernel error, think my CF card might be the issue or there is some general issue with the kernel driver for mmc, but the loader part worked fine. Single test on desktop ran as expected. You would need to add the rpm to a repo, and to be safe, I'd install it on the build host also. I'm looking to skip F10, hoping that F11 will be more worthwhile -- almost none of our probs are solved in F10, so it's pointless rebase churn... That would depend on if there is any movement by fedora on official supporting of installs from usb... ;-) I wonder how many other people are using mkusbinstall outside of us? Ahh... On a side note unless you use the other features of mkslim, the need for mkslim might go away for F11. Yes, seen noise about that in the anaconda list. Feather up you cap - after much pushback they realised what a big fat waste some stuff in the images dir is. Or they just hit the size limit on a DVD, and now it matters ;-) Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Mass olpc-update via XS?
Hi Martin, Interesting. I didn't know cjb had forked my code. Should I fold his code and ship it with the XS? Chris, can you tell me more about the patches? Sorry about that, I should have written this up. The change here is the addition of an xs-upserv script, and it's probably not useful for the XS -- you already have an xs-rsync setup that does the same thing. We wrote it while in UY for their non-XS school server, as a quick script to turn any machine into an update server: it takes a directory tree with a build per directory, creates an rsyncd.conf that exposes each build, and launches rsyncd with the new config to serve the builds. At the time, we needed something to prove that UY's modified 767 build could be upgraded to by their modified 649 build using their local school servers, without the assumptions made by the xs-rsync setup. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Mass olpc-update via XS?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Sorry about that, I should have written this up. Thanks for telling more :-) The change here is the addition of an xs-upserv script, and it's probably not useful for the XS -- you already have an xs-rsync setup that does the same thing. We wrote it while in UY for their non-XS school server, as a quick script to turn any machine into an update server: it takes a directory tree with a build per directory, creates an rsyncd.conf that exposes each build, and launches rsyncd with the new config to serve the builds. hmm hmmm. Maybe we can include it anyway, and set a canonical dir where it scans for trees. In fact, I think it already unpacks anything it finds in /library/xs-rsync/xobuids-packed/ . The rpm can probably install and Just Work with alien, I made sure all its deps are in Debian. Was there a strong reason to avoid xinetd? Strong reason to avoid fakechroot? (Assuming you removed them for ease-of-coding, I'd keep them for unified maintenance...) At the time, we needed something to prove that UY's modified 767 build could be upgraded to by their modified 649 build using their local school servers, without the assumptions made by the xs-rsync setup. Assumptions being the insert-usb-disk triggers? Or something else? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
