#4485 BLOC Update.: Reimplement olpcrd to use redhat infrastructure. (was: olpcrd should be properly packaged)

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#4485: Reimplement olpcrd to use redhat infrastructure.
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  Reporter:  gnu       |       Owner:  cscott  
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  security  |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0         |    Blocking:  6246    
 Blockedby:            |  
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Changes (by cscott):

  * blocking:  => 6246


Comment:

 Retitling bug.  The current olpcrd is based on debian-installer, because
 redhat doesn't have any tools for directly creating minimal initramfs
 images.  Olpcrd will probably have to be rewritten as a pilgrim, puritan,
 or livecd-tools script in order to make it suitable for packaging with
 redhat infrastructure.

 olpcrd also wants to be integrated in our kernel build process, since we
 want to create a single signed kernel+ramdisk image; not sure how to
 reconcile this with our wish to fork olpcrd's python process to run other
 parts of the system (see trac #6246).  Perhaps we should just insist that
 the (unwritten) theft-deterrence daemon be a static-linked binary, so we
 don't need to unify the python environments nor keep the python binary
 around.

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