Re: educlient development

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Mike Gabriel]
> The question is, how to maintain these changes.

I believe option (B) is the way with largest chance of success, because
it reduces the chance of the various versions drifting too far away from
each other:

> Option (B):
>
>    o implement distro and version awareness in the post installation script:
>
>      - check on what kind of system educlient gets installed
>      - use slightly different configs for each distro version
>      - e.g. /etc/idmapd.conf has changed between Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04
>        (Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs -> /run/rpc_pipefs)
[...]
> I also am thinking of making the package appropriate for upload to
> Debian unstable.

This would be great!

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen