It's certainly something I'd like to try, but if I recall correctly, the firmware is only loosely based on LTS. The actual OS on the thin client is heavily customized.
Working with debian packages is not something I've done much, and then only to build them rather than deconstruct them. I do really like the idea of a chroot shell, though. I'm currently using AIDE to look at changes pre and post build, and then I go through interactive error messages on the IGEL to determine what additional libraries are necessary.
The last time I did this, there were several libraries provided by the LTS footprint that were not provided on the IGEL, so it's a little easier for me to do the scratch build, since I have to do some by hand tracing anyway. Being able to do this from a debian package in a root shell would be very handy, though!!
-- Kermit Short
From: x2go-dev-bounces@lists.x2go.org [x2go-dev-bounces@lists.x2go.org] on behalf of Stefan Baur [X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:36 PM To: x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] X2Go module purposes
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Am 26.01.2015 um 22:27 schrieb Short, Kermit:
Their firmware is minimally based on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 32-bit. While repositories exist for Ubuntu, the IGEL ecosystem doesn't support dpkg, apt-get, or any other packaging mechanism, so I have to hand roll any packages I deploy to their custom partition.
Wait, are you saying you know it's a stripped-down Ubuntu LTS 14.04/32-Bit, lacking the package install tools? That's why you're building everything from scratch?
Why don't you just take the packages from our Ubuntu repository, download them to whatever machine you have available, unpack their content, and copy what you need?
You could even do a basic Ubuntu LTS 14.04/32-Bit install in a changeroot environment, do a regular x2goclient/thinclient install in the changeroot, and copy over what you need.
- -Stefan
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