Re: LTSP issues in Debian-Edu.

[Oded Naveh <skilinux@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Oded Naveh wrote:
>
> Vagrant Cascadian: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:52 PM
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:07:32PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
....
>> > > 3) When 'ltsp-client-builder' fails for any reason it has
>> no second chance.
>> > >   Any attempt of the installer to rerun the builder will fail without
>> > > user intervention, because /opt/ltsp/i386 already exists, if debconf
>> > > priority is high the installer will be looping.
>> >
>> > It would be nice to get this fixed (to succeed to install, but also
>> > not to loop endless in case of failure.) Can you please
>> open a bug about the latter?
>>
>> yeah, that's kind of ugly. though doesn't debian-installer
>> usually lower the debconf priority whenever a step fails?
>        Certainly does, usually.
> For some reason it did loop for me but I didn't keep the log to show it.
> I'd look into it, maybe it will be easier to write a rm line Than a bug report.
....
Seems to me, the way to do it is to put our own plug-in '020-rootpath' into
/etc/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client       or
/usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom

Which one?

Containing something like:
case "$MODE" in
    before-install)
        ROOT=$BASE/$CHROOT
        if [ -d $ROOT ] ; then
            rm --force --recursive $ROOT
            exit 0
        fi
        mkdir --parents "$ROOT"
        ;;
esac

It may later be removed by finish-install, or left for farther use?

Is that correct?
Odd.