2008/8/3 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx>: > It sure is possible, I'll look into updating the packages for >= F8. Oh fantastic! Thanks! > BTW were in the schook server project are you using it? Just curious. :) In combination with rsync, on a package called "xs-rsync". The laptops get their OS updates from the school server (aka XS) via "olpc-update", a wrapper around rsync. Which means that even things like /dev get rsynced. Naturally, I don't want to have various "/dev" directories with real device nodes on the XS. And of course rsync runs as an unpriv user, so publishing root owned files needs fakeroot. There is a bit more detail in the README: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/martin/xs-rsync.git;a=blob;f=README;h=95c9a53ffc6c1ad47e7110c6657950c04bc5accf;hb=4800e21fdfe77e95c17acd6365689da2586348c1 and you can see the scripts too in that git repo. For each OS version I keep a "state file" with all the ownerships and special nodes. rsync runs always under fakeroot, with a readonly state file that is a combination of all the per-os-version statefile. I learned this trick from seeing a similar thing done by Scott for OLPC's update.laptop.org - and I will probably use this trick more in the future. I am finishing and packaging xs-rsync at the moment, but I spent all saturday chasing down this bug in all the wrong places - and only woke up this morning with thinking of waipid and faked. > I use the tarballs on > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/ > > For example for the latest fakeroot you can pick > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.9.6.tar.gz Ah, good one - I could only think of trying apt-get source, which I am happy to myself, but not appropriate for a Fedora build toolchain ;-) - thanks for the help! m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
