Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Jerry Vonau : > Are you just adding rpms to the install media? Or are you trying > something more difficult? I have a process in mind if you're just adding > rpms to the mix... Just adding RPMs would be enough, but also we're customizing the kickstart file a little. > However, I see tha

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff : > I keep my build machine of F9 due to similar issues I saw building F7 > from F9 -- however, ISTR there's been some discussion of this > recently. Hmmm, a bit of googling leads to a nice thread > >  http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-buildsys-l...@redhat.com/msg02210.ht

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
+1, except not just PDFs. We have much better presentation formats, such as Scratch, Turtle Art Portfolio, and Etoys presentation objects. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Thank Martin! > Your email really helped me. > Here is my current thinking on lesson plans (not cours

Re: [Server-devel] Various XS updates

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I've built and published new packages for moodle-xs, xs-config and > xs-activity-server today. These solve a number of small issues And due to a silly mistake, the moodle-xs package got caught up and never appeared in the server. Now, you

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:47 +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > A number of difficulties/unfortunate circumstances are combining and > causing me a headache. I'm looking for help/ideas on getting around > these... > > I am trying to build a customized version of the OLPC XS school server > for t

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: > But how will a non-root user be able to read the backup files > at /library/users give the following permissions: Look at the acls for a hint. Apache can already read those files :-) But your post points out an important distinctio

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:45 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - Given that you are running your rsync from the backup server, it > will be easy to run it under fakeroot. Look at the fakeroot manpage, > you'll find that it can keep its metadata. With that, you'll preserve > metadata (owner/grp, acls,

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Rodolfo D.
Hello: > Interesting task. You aren't telling us much about your setup -- > specifically, how is the network conn between your XSs and your backup > server? > We're using the same ISP with public IPs on each schoolserver.. we rsync + ssh to a remote internet server so their not on the same netwo

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I then tried to create a F9 chroot using mock, with the intention of > running revisor or pungi inside. This doesn't work, because mock > creates a v9 berkeley DB inside the chroot, but the libraries/apps > inside the chroot only support bdb

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff : > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I >> completely forgot to send a fixed one. Thanks for taking care of that! > > Bad boy! Question: have you got other forgotten patches? Now'd be

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I > completely forgot to send a fixed one. Thanks for taking care of that! Bad boy! Question: have you got other forgotten patches? Now'd be a good time to hear of them... m

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff : > We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more > symmetrical in if [ "$a" == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left > side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I c

Re: [Server-devel] public keys not getting written to authorized_keys file during registration

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Hamilton Chua wrote: > I'm not sure if anybody has experienced this yet. Using XS version > 0.6d5, when I register a user the public key doesn't get written to the > authorized_keys file for the new user. Thanks for the bug report and the diagnosis! I've pushed ou

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Hamilton Chua
Yay! Thanks Martin ! :-) On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 12:08 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more > symmetrical in if [ "$a" == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left > side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. > --- > scri

[Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more symmetrical in if [ "$a" == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. --- scripts/create_user |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git

[Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, A number of difficulties/unfortunate circumstances are combining and causing me a headache. I'm looking for help/ideas on getting around these... I am trying to build a customized version of the OLPC XS school server for the OLPC deployment here in Nepal. The latest XS release is based on F9.

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Rodolfo, On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Rodolfo D. wrote: > I'm working on a backup and restore feature for our schoolservers, and I got > stuck on home directories of laptops Interesting task. You aren't telling us much about your setup -- specifically, how is the network conn between your