On Thursday 04 January 2007 14:23, bugzilla-skolelinux@maintainer.skolelinux.no wrote: > http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1004 > ------- Additional Comments From c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de 2007-01-04 14:23 > As Cobaco pointed out, it is then possible to point all machines to side > wide kde(kiosk)/gnome/xfce/... configs somewhere under /usr/share/etc/, > simply by adding a .listing file on the workstations. > > Even distributing those .listing files could be made unnecessary if > desktop-profiles could check for .listing files > under /usr/share/etc/desktop-profiles. can be done already, simply requires changing the value of the LISTINGS_DIRS variable (set in /etc/default/desktop-profiles) to include that directory > Then it would be enough to place a profile on the server, to enjoy it on > all workstations, thinclient-servers, thin-clients, and lessdisk-clients. > > Transition to centralize existing debian-edu configuration, could follow > later: > - in server profile, > - in the workstation profile, > - For those files that are now provided centrally, stop installing them > in /usr/share/debian-edu with the workstation profile, delete existing > unchanged files during updates, rename customized ones. hm, we currently have 1 package debian-edu-config that's installed on all debian-edu machines AFAIK -> It might make more sense to split up debian-edu-config in subpackages, or is this overkill? (post-etch in any case at this point) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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