Re: [K12OSN] k12osn on mandrake

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote:

>On Tuesday 29 April 2003 02:24 pm, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Brook Humphrey wrote:
>> >For political reasons I will not use redhat but I do like the idea of
>> >including this on top of mandrake. Is there anybody interested in this or
>> >that has already done such a thing.
>>
>> A while back I did the basic foot-work to get K12LTSP to run ontop
>> of Mandrake.
>>
>> I had several friends who worked at Mandrake who were helping me along.
>> Even then it was slow-going, not a lot of interest in giving me a hand...
>> When Mandrake fired all of the US-based staff, that pretty much ground
>> the whole project to a halt and I gave up on it.
>>
>> -Eric
>
>Thanks. I'm not hired by mandrake but i have been doing packages and cooker 
>stuff for them for years. As such i know a good portion of the developers 
>even though I did not know the us staff all that well. 
>
>I would be interested in seeing what you did. I do believe that it should not 
>be so hard to get it all going. I already know how to modify the installer 
>somewhat (read here as I'm not a perl programmer but I do know some things to 
>change to make custom install options and such. The rest is just how you 
>package the rpm's. If the rpm's are done correctly they will handle 
>everything else for you. I know for mandrake 9.2 there is allot of talk about 
>making ldap a very easy setup which would be one of the last things that 
>allot of users are looking into.

The "K12LTSP" specific parts of K12LTSP should drop right into Mandrake.

The tricky work is gettting the installer to behave the way you want it to...


-Eric