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Re: First wheezy based DVD created



Hi,

On Sonntag, 5. Mai 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > ain't this because we had/have some i386 settings hardcoded? A few
> > years ago this made sense, but today I do see how amd64 only setups
> > are useful and desirable.
> Yes, on amd64 we install an i386 LTSP chroot, based on the old truth
> that all LTSP clients had less than 4 GiB RAM and some of them had
> 32-bit CPUs, making it the most sensible choice to make sure as many
> clients as possible would work out of the box.
> 
> I have no idea if this is still true, or if all clients these days
> have 64-bit CPUs or some of them have more than 4 GiB RAM.  If so,
> amd64 would be a more sensible choice for the LTSP chroot.

I've been thinking about this several times and came to the conclusion that I 
believe it's best to 

- continue to default to install an i386 chroot on amd64 installs _if
  possible_, else install an amd64.
- document how to create such a chroot more expclicitly with these 
constraints.

Comments?
 
> Changing it is easy, though.  Would have to edit
> share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom/000-arch-detection
> in debian-edu-config.

ack.

> > I guess I shall setup jenkins tests for these.

for now I've just put it in the TODO there :/


cheers,
	Holger


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