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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