Sarge-based Debian-edu
Some of us are from time to time reading that the timeline for
releasing Debian-Sarge is pushed furter away for each day. For more
update on the dates, you may look at the message to
debian-devel-announce [1].
It would be really great to have a Sarge based Debian-edu when Debian
releases Sarge. Well, I'm not really sure how far away we are, we still
have to maintain the ltsp-packages outside the main-tree, but most of
the other stuff should be almost ready. Therefore I Ask you to join us
to test. There is for the moment 2 images that are built for
Debian-edu:
One that is autobuilt using whatever packages are availible for the
debian-installer and for the image to be fetched:
rsync -vtessh ftp.skolelinux.no:~ftp/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-1.raw
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-1.raw
An otherone that I build whenever I make some changes to some package
of some sort.
rsync -vtessh ftp.skolelinux.no:~ftp/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-bzzware.raw
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-sarge/sarge-i386-bzzware.raw
To the later I also releases a description document with things I find
that we need to fix [2]. This document is updated as things move along,
and I have my own little script that I use to build the CD with. The
source of the build-script is availible from alioth, And please enhance
it, document it, use it or let it be. Everything I do goes back into
CVS, or if I have to build a custom package (webmin-dhcpd is one
example) the source and the debian-packages are put into
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/dists/sarge/local/binary-i386
You may see -x.edu.y packages there, which is debian-packages that are
rebuilt (webmin is one)
you may see +cvs2004MMDD, which is debian-edu-packages built from cvs
at the given date. All cvs builds are tagged in cvs with
version_M_min+cvsYYYYMMDD
>From my document [2] I have this list of things that I want to have
fixed. Soon all of them will be filed as bugs agains
debian-edu-install[3], debian-edu-config[4] or debian-edu[5] in debian-bts:
TODO
----
- Fix Partitioning of standalone
- Remove Standalone Extras
- Create Education-barebone
- Fix Grub question (or maybe not)
- Fix DNS bug with Munin
- Reboot after everything is installed
- Make the need for a last reboot go away
- Fix so that KDE is the default for logging in an a clean account
- Make pam use @other (and such)
- Make KDE stop complaining so loud about missing soundcard
(or is this really something else?)
- Add missing Mozilla-locale-no-nb
- Make Ragnar agree on where LTSP-kernels should be,
and make him fix inetd, dhcpd and pxelinux.cfg/default
- Make sure every package that existed on Venus is replaced with
something else
- Make sure it is possible to upgrade from venus to Sarge
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg00005.html
[2] http://developer.skolelinux.no/dokumentasjon/debian-edu_sarge_installation.txt
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu-install
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu-config
[5] http://bugs.debian.org/debian-edu
--
Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no
http://bzz.no/
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