[Server-devel] xs-rsync

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been playing around with this for a while but a couple of
>>> questions have come up which I can't resolve:
>>>
>>> 1. In the XS-rsync document on the olpc wiki it mentions:
>>>
>>> ~ With a USB stick, for a headless XO ~
>>>
>>> What is a headless XO?
>>
>> Ooops. Headless XS. It doesn't _have_ to be headless, but this model
>> supports operation without any interaction via a terminal (tty or
>> graphical)...
>
> aaaaah.... now that makes more sense, I was starting to think there
> was an XO without a screen specifically built for this purpose ;-)
>
>>> 2. Run `xs-refresh-xobuildlist --rebuildconfig` - when I try this
>>> command on my XS, it tells me command not found... am I missing
>>> something I should have installed?
>
>> Perhaps. What version of the xs-rsync have you got (try `rpm -qi
>> xs-rsync`) ? Have you performed the recommended
>>
>>  yum --enablerepo=olpcwhatever install xs-rsync
>>
>> ?
>
> done... twice... tells me I've already got the latest version of
> xs-rsync (0.5-1.xs7.noarch)

I was away from my test XS installs yesterday. There's an error in the
README :-/ the script is xs-refresh-xobuilds.py . Oops.

cheers,


m
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