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Bug#893111: debian-edu-install: Consider LTSP PnP



Hi Wolfgang,

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 07:58:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 04:42:40PM +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> 
> > LTSP got a new mode called LTSP-PnP, where the image for clients is not
> > built from a debootstrapped chroot, but rather from the host filesystem,
> > with ways to strip unwanted contents and change details before packing
> > the squashfs.
> 
> As far as I remember this has been developped some years ago for single purpose
> LTSP installation (mostly at Greek schools). 

Hmm… I don't know where it originates, but following some threads on the
ltsp mailing list, they seem to consider it more or less the default.

> 
> > That would make Debain Edu a lot more easy on disk resources and the
> > installation a lot quicker, an also ease updates and changes to the
> > environment.
> 
> It doesn't fit the Debian Edu case and is way to unflexible, i.e. 
> doesn't allow to serve LTSP clients with different archs.

Modifying the chroot or building for another arch requires manual
intervention anyway, so I am not sure whether using the PnP mode would
mean a regression.

-nik

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