Tcos Into Debian

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This wiki article describes the process to upload TCOS into Debian. What is TCOS?


Contents

Depends

netifaces (python-netifaces) 

http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mario-guest/netifaces.git;a=summary


p910nd 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/p910nd.git



tinylogin

ltspfsd

rtptools

  • New version of pulseaudio don't need ??? ASK IGNACIO
  • Not GPL :(
  • Downgrade depends to recommends
  • UPDATE: rtptools is removed from depends:

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/initramfs-tools-tcos.git/commit/?id=10ea30144912f1d8778518416278b76b41b77221

TCOS PACKAGES

tcos 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcos.git
  • Move some Depends to Recomends
  • Delete:
    • tcos-keyring
    • tinylogin, etc..
  • migrate from imlib11 to imlib2 DONE

This is main source package, provide this bins:

  • initramfs-tools-tcos Architecture: all
  • tcos-core Architecture: any
  • tcos-standalone Architecture: all
  • tcos Architecture: all
  • tcos-tftp-dhcp Architecture: all
  • initramfs-tools-tcos contains script to build TCOS images
  • tcos-core contains bins needed by TCOS images
  • tcos-standalone contains scripts to run TCOS XMLRPC in installed distro (depends on tcos-core)
  • tcos: metapackage to install all we need to build a TCOS server
  • tcos-tftp-dhcp: metapackage to install atftpd and dhcp3-server instead of dnsmasq (tcos depends on dnsmasq| tcos-tftp-dhcp)

notes

Dirs in sources:


  • xmlrpc - RPC webservice RPC with XML as transport protocol, it's used to communicate thin clients and server, runs in thin client (8998 port) and server access it from a Python GUI interface (tcosmonitor, next upload)
  • hex2ascii - very small app that convert HEX IP to ASCII
  • lockscreen - small apps that locks screen with a background image
  • tmixer - fork of amixer (ALSA console tool) that support OSS devices and show channels in parseable mode.
  • tnc (tcos-net-controller) small C app that add and remove iptables rules that block network traffic based on user ID, it's installed with bit suid to allow users in tcos group calling it.
  • udev (mount_listener) trigger that detects when a device is plugged or mounted in thin clients.

There are another things (scripts) that work like initramfs-tools package, generate a bootable init ramdisk that configure network and connect to GDM/KDM in server

tcos-standalone package is installed in normal debian/ubuntu hosts and allow to control this host like thin clients.

The build depends are very short: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), cdbs, libxmlrpc-c3-dev, libxau-dev, libxaw7-dev, libimlib2-dev, python, python-support (>= 0.3), pkg-config, libasound2-dev

Packages are build with very simple CDBS rules, debian/copyright is up to date and lintian don't reports any warning

tcosmonitor 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcosmonitor.git

Source tcosmonitor generate 2 packages:

  • tcosmonitor-common (to be used by tcos-standalone)
  • tcosmonitor (gui that depends on tcosmonitor-common)



tcosconfig 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcosconfig.git

Only generate one package. It's a frontend of gentcos script (in initramfs-tools-tcos)



tcos-configurator 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcos-configurator.git

Simple GUI to configure a DHCP server, create users, and configure GDM/KDM


tcos-extra-modules 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcos-extra-modules.git


tcos-usplash && splashy 

http://tcosproject.org/cgit/tcos-usplash.git/
  • Not critical
  • Fix initramfs-tools-tcos to not use if not exists.



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