Deployment wishlist

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Post-flash auto-customization+modification

I'd like a way for a config script to be automatically called upon imaging, so we can easily write scripts for custom needs/packages/modifications - Pia

like an answer file?

(something like an answer file: You populate it with settings you want, and they are pulled in after imaging i.e. locale information, language, time zone)-Reuben

Management tools

I want a way to host a repository and push changes/updates/new applications to laptops - Pia

like radmind?

I always like pull better then push, but I think you are looking for something similar to radmind: http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

requirements needed...

Here are six different partial solutions to the mgmt-tools question:

• Spacewalk and Puppet.
• LATU's updater, and Martin's makefile system.
• mass olpc-update and Software updater.

Perhaps we could write a good list of requirements after spending a few minutes considering each of these examples?

Would one of these existing systems suffice if only better documentation were available?

--Michael Stone 18:19, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Easy way of installing wikipediaES snapshot on XS

Preferably 1 command. Maybe 1gb of data. To be accessed over http. Current instructions at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/wikireader/2009-February/000064.html

-DanielDrake

Journal backup and restore

The XS backup/restore system is not really usable by deployments because:

• Everyone can access everyone's data, so deployments will want to password protect this (meaning that kids can't use it)
• There is no way to restore more than one file at once.

There are several situations when we require ourselves to perform proper journal restores, e.g.

• when upgrading teacher's laptops from an early build that was used during training, to the one that we are shipping to the kids 2 months after training started
• when kids or teachers uninstall activities (this functionality is quite a misfeature for deployments)
• when we are reflashing due to problems (common, but currently undiagnosed) where sound stops working, or where sugar stops seeing APs making infrastructure connectivity impossible.

We are using some scripts for backup and restore, but they are ugly and could not realistically be used by teachers or children.

-DanielDrake

Less XS configuration

It's a pain to have to configure the jabber and squid servers on XS installations, especially the part of having to go to a web interface to configure shared roster! Why can't all this be automated?

Granted it is not that much work, but when you are installing 10 servers and are extremely time limited, it is frustrating.

-DanielDrake 22:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Customisation of browse homepage

It's not very friendly in the shipped version, and is not internationalised. Currently it can be modified by deployments by changing the template in the image, but this is not a very pleasant way for a deployment to have to make customisations.

-DanielDrake 22:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)