On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 23:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Rick, > > Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is > > > working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track > > > things efficiently. > > > > > > What do you think of my plan? > > > Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you! > > I’m willing to test on a few architectures: Macintosh powerpc-32bit and powerpc-64bit, Cubox-i (armhf), Sheevaplug (armel), OpenRC (armel). > > > > If you want me to test any of those, I’ll need some info: > > > > 1) What is this change supposed to accomplish? Do you have a canonical use-case I can attempt to model? > > 2) What kinds of test do you want me to perform? And what results are you expecting? > Actually, it's in "call for review" status, instead of "call for > testing", because there's no built images ready yet. > Of course you can build everything yourself, but it may take 1-2 hours > for one ARCH, which I think it's too long. > > I called for review because I want to confirm that those changes are necessary. > > For example, I know for it's necessary to have GNU/screen support for > armel/armhf/arm64 platform; howover, for i386/amd64 PC, it usually > have CRT/LCD and physical keyboard attached, [...] For a rack-mounted server, it is usually possible to attach a (switched) keyboard and monitor, but there is contention for those resources and machine rooms are not comfortable places for humans. IP-KVMs are an option but often awkward to use and may rely on plain- text authentication, Java applets and other insecure technologies. So an ssh server and screen could be very useful on PCs too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
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