[PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 08:03:00 EDT 2007
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Nelson Elhage <nelhage at mit.edu> wrote:
> > This is a patch to olpc-util to add a script to register the XO with
> > the schoolserver for purposes of backup for trial 2
> > (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/24).
>
> > + sn = read_ofw('mfg-data/SN')
> > + uuid = read_ofw('mfg-data/U#')
>
> Certain old machines don't have SN or U# data. You should have
> read_ofw return None if the file it is looking for doesn't exist, and
> then follow the above two lines with:
>
> sn = sn or 'SHF00000000'
> uuid = uuid or '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
>
> That should make things work properly on B1s and hand-built
> preproduction machines, among others.
>
> We should think about how we handle a classroom full on B1s (which
> have no SN data) on the school server side. B1s do have UUID, so
> maybe we should create the schoolserver account based on the first 8
> characters of the UUID in this case. This shouldn't make a difference
> to the XO code, since the XO ought to take whatever account name the
> schoolserver gives it.
>
> I don't believe I have the bits to commit a patch to olpc-util. Could
> someone who does (danw? dcbw?) commit this and then ping me to let me
> know it's in?
We should probably do the fixes for B1s first...
I also apparently didn't get the first copy of this mail, not sure where
it went...
Dan
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