[Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot (2008-08-11)

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 18:49:18 EDT 2008


A shorter version of this will appeared on Community News soon -

- Douglas started working on the school server this week.  He tackled
some bugs in the idmgr (#7606 and #7653), but most of the week was
really devoted to familiarisation with Fedora and the specifics of the
XS.  For a while he was befuddled by a faulty network card, but by
Friday he was back in control and enjoying himself.

- The "xs-rsync" package is ready and you can update your XO image
with it. In general terms, it allows publishing of resources on the XS
via rsync, with special support for XO update images. More
documentation at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync . Scott has
applied a small patch to olpc-update (thanks!)  adds support for an
--server parameter.

- A mechanism for triggering scripts when you insert a USB disks into
a XS is ready. This allows us to deploy content and management scripts
via USB disks. Policy and guidelines on how to use this, including
security, are taking shape. The mechanism uses a ported version of
usbmount - early documentation at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Automount_triggers

- Thanks to Axel Thimm we have a fixed fakeroot on the XS, and one
less race condition.

- Jerry Vonau is exploring ahead on the Fedora 9 port, looking at our
custom network scripts, xs-config and livecd/installcd build
infrastructure, with a bit of support form Martin Langhoff.

cheers,



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