For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is +
Entries from July 2010.
+ +For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is a bit troubling. Laptops are typically used also when not connected to the network, and it is vital for a user to be able to log in or unlock the screen saver also when a central server is unavailable. @@ -229,28 +228,26 @@ modify it manually.
If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-Here is a short update on my + +
Here is a short update on my my Debian Lenny->Squeeze upgrade testing. Here is a summary of the difference for Gnome when it is upgraded by apt-get and aptitude. I'm @@ -343,28 +340,26 @@ in git today to try to get apt-get to not remove xorg completely. No idea when it hits Squeeze, but when it does I hope it will reduce the difference somewhat. -
De siste dagene har Aftenposten +
Since my last post about available LDAP tools in Debian, I was told about a LDAP GUI that is even better than luma. The java application @@ -421,28 +414,26 @@ have with it is how it handle errors. If something go wrong, its non-intuitive behaviour require me to go through some query work list and remove the failing query. Nothing big, but very annoying.
-Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support +
Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support sourcing files from /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ on the thin clients, and that this can be used to fetch configuration from LDAP if Debian Edu choose to store configuration there.
@@ -517,28 +508,26 @@ Xperience, Inc., 2000. I found its files on a personal home page over at redhat.com. -For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and +
For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and DHCP services in Debian Edu to use the same LDAP objects for a given computer, to avoid the possibility of having a inconsistent state for a computer in LDAP (as in DHCP but no DNS entry or the other way @@ -596,28 +585,26 @@ might be a good place to put it.
If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-This is a +
Thanks to +
Thanks to todays opengeodata blog entry, I just discovered that the OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten @@ -967,28 +952,26 @@ alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support, and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the www.openstreetmap.org front page.
-For mange år siden slutte jeg å kjøpe musikk-CDer. à rsaken var at +
For mange år siden slutte jeg å kjøpe musikk-CDer. à rsaken var at musikkbransjen var godt i gang med å selge platene sine med DRM som gjorde at jeg ikke fikk spilt av musikken jeg kjøpte på utstyret jeg hadde tilgjengelig, dvs. min datamaskin. Det var umulig å se på en @@ -1012,31 +995,29 @@ holder meg til DVD-filmer som kan spilles av på mine Linuxbokser. Kommer neppe til å ta i bruk Blueray, og ei heller de nye DRM-greiene «Ultraviolet» som be annonsert her om dagen.
-The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have +
The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian Edu/Skolelinux into shape. This future version will use Kerberos for -authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single sign, +authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon, getting rid of password questions one at the time.
It will also feature a roaming workstation profile with local home @@ -1069,26 +1050,268 @@ release another day.
If you want to help out with implementing Kerberos for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work +with the next Debian Edu release. Not nearly done, but one major step +completed.
+ ++This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this +release is to test the user application selection. To have a look, +install the standalone profile and let the developers know if the set +of installed packages i.e. applications should be modified. If some +user application is missing, or if there are some applications that no +longer make sense to be included in Debian Edu, please let us know. +Also, if a useful application is missing the translation for your +language of choice, please let us know too.
+ +In addition, feedback and help to polish the desktop (menus, +artwork, starters, etc.) is appreciated. We would like to ship a nice +and handy KDE4 desktop targeted for schools out of the box.
+ +The other profiles should be installable, but there is a lot more +work left to be done before they are ready, so do not expect to +much.
+ +Changes compared to the lenny based version
- - Tags: debian edu, english, nuug. - -
-
+
- Everything from Debian Squeeze
+
-
+
- Desktop environment KDE 4.4 => the new KDE desktop in + combination with some new artwork +
- Web browser Iceweasel 3.5 +
- OpenOffice.org 3.2 +
- Educational toolbox GCompris 9.3 +
- Music creator Rosegarden 10.04.2 +
- Image editor Gimp 2.6.10 +
- Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.0 +
- Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.10.4 +
- 3D modeler Blender 2.49.2 (new application) +
- Video editor Kdenlive 0.7.7 (new application) +
+ - Now using Kerberos for password checking (migration not finished).
+ Enabled for:
+
-
+
- PAM +
- LDAP +
- IMAP +
- SMTP (sender verification) +
+ - New experimental roaming workstation profile for laptops. +
- Show welcome page to users when they first log in. The URL is + fetched from LDAP. +
- New LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and Gnome. +
- General cleanup (not finished) +
The following features are not working as they should
+ +-
+
- No web based administration tool for creating users and groups. The + scripts ldap-createuser-krb and ldap-add-user-to-group can be used + for testing. +
- DVD installs are missing debian-installer images for the PXE boot, + and do not set up the PXE menu on eth0 because of this. LTSP + clients should still boot from eth1 on thin client servers. +
- The restructured KDE menu is not implemented. +
- The LDAP server setup need to be reviewed for security. +
- The LDAP directory structure need to be reworked. +
- Different sets of packages are installed when using the DVD and the + netinst CD. More packages are installed using the netinst CD. +
- The jackd package fail to install. This is believed to be caused by + some ongoing transition, and hopefully should be solved soon. The + jackd1 package can be installed manually for those that need it. +
- Some packages lack translations. See + http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze for updated status, + and help out with translations. +
To download this multiarch netinstall release you can use
+ +-
+
- ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso +
- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso +
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso +
To download this multiarch dvd release you can use
+ +-
+
- ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso +
- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso +
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso +
There is no source DVD available yet. It will be prepared when we +get closer to the final release.
+The MD5SUM of these images are
+-
+
- 3dbf45d59f42a53518b6e3c9ec3b5eb6 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso +
- 22f2cbfce281d1c6e478be452638675d debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso +
The SHA1SUM of these images are
+-
+
- c53d1b69b40cf37cd27aefaf33f6f6a3821bedf0 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso +
- 2ec29d7db676d59d32197b05c277ffe16348376c debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso +
How to report bugs: +http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla
+ +Please direct replies to debian-edu@lists.debian.org
+ + +I discovered this while doing +automated +testing of upgrades from Debian Lenny to Squeeze. A few packages +in Debian still got circular dependencies, and it is often claimed +that apt and aptitude should be able to handle this just fine, but +some times these dependency loops causes apt to fail.
+ +An example is from todays +upgrade +of KDE using aptitude. In it, a bug in kdebase-workspace-data +causes perl-modules to fail to upgrade. The cause is simple. If a +package fail to unpack, then only part of packages with the circular +dependency might end up being unpacked when unpacking aborts, and the +ones already unpacked will fail to configure in the recovery phase +because its dependencies are unavailable.
+ +In this log, the problem manifest itself with this error:
+ ++ ++dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-modules: + perl-modules depends on perl (>= 5.10.1-1); however: + Version of perl on system is 5.10.0-19lenny2. +dpkg: error processing perl-modules (--configure): + dependency problems - leaving unconfigured +
The perl/perl-modules circular dependency is already +reported as a bug, and will +hopefully be solved as soon as possible, but it is not the only one, +and each one of these loops in the dependency tree can cause similar +failures. Of course, they only occur when there are bugs in other +packages causing the unpacking to fail, but it is rather nasty when +the failure of one package causes the problem to become worse because +of dependency loops.
+ +Thanks to +the +tireless effort by Bill Allombert, the number of circular +dependencies +left in Debian +is dropping, and perhaps it will reach zero one day. :)
+ +Todays testing also exposed a bug in +update-notifier and +different behaviour between +apt-get and aptitude, the latter possibly caused by some circular +dependency. Reported both to BTS to try to get someone to look at +it.
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