LTSP improvements for quantal

Registered by Stéphane Graber

General discussion on improving LTSP's integration in Ubuntu and our overall thin client experience.
Ideas that have been mentioned and should be discussed:
 - How to deal with chroot upgrades (currently not supported)
 - Making maintenance easier
   - Split ltsp-live out of the main ltsp package
   - Rebase on Debian's packaging for ltsp itself (only package we don't simply sync at the moment)
 - Generating a .img image from an LTSP chroot that can be used to make a standalone thin client image

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
Steve Langasek
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Stéphane Graber
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Stéphane Graber
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for quantal
Implementation:
Not started
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-12.10-beta-1

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General discussion on improving LTSP's integration in Ubuntu and our overall thin client experience.
Ideas that have been mentioned and should be discussed:
 - How to deal with chroot upgrades (currently not supported)
 - Making maintenance easier
   - Split ltsp-live out of the main ltsp package
   - Rebase on Debian's packaging for ltsp itself (only package we don't simply sync at the moment)
 - Generating a .img image from an LTSP chroot that can be used to make a standalone thin client image

Stéphane, please fill out the below section with an explanation of this feature that would be appropriate to include in the Ubuntu release notes.

Release Notes:

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Work Items

Work items:
[ogra] Add support for .img building into ltsp-build-client (code at http://paste.ubuntu.com/936878/): POSTPONED
[stgraber] Add support for ARM into LTSP upstream (generating the missing glue to allow ARM booting): DONE
[stgraber] Investigate enabling recommends by default in ltsp-build-client (done upstream): DONE
[stgraber] investigate zram or whatever the flavour of the year ram cache thingy is (bug 1031482): DONE
[jonathan] update LDM themes to new Ubuntu themes: POSTPONED
[alkisg] Ensure that all our LTSP hooks have been moved to ltsp-live so that upgrading the chroot works: POSTPONED
[jonathan] add a preseed option so that ltsp-build-client can be called with --fat-client in d-i: DONE

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