[MIR] Please promote zram-config to main

Bug #1031482 reported by Stéphane Graber
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zram-config (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In the past LTSP used compcache as a way to compress RAM to get swap.

That feature was dropped from the kernel some releases ago and replaced by zram.
zram-config is the easiest way to configure zram at boot time.

The package itself is just a single upstart job configuring zram.
There's no binary, daemon or even config files in that package besides that single upstart job.

Bug wise, there are quite a few install failures caused by zram trying to start at installation time, these might be caused by the kernel failing to load the module or by using a custom kernel lacking zram support, we're not expecting any such issue with LTSP as the LTSP chroot is pretty much identical for all our users.

However, if these bugs are a concern, I'm happy to patch the current zram-config job to better deal with errors (call "stop" when it's unable to configure the service, instead of just failing).

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

This looks trivial to me, but since it does use an upstart job, I'll assign to the security MIR member.

Changed in zram-config (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Seems fine to me. ACK

Changed in zram-config (Ubuntu):
assignee: Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) → nobody
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Moved to main.

Changed in zram-config (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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