Tcos Into Debian

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

Depends

netifaces (python-netifaces)

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

• DONE
• http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/netifaces.html
• UPDATE to last upstream version 0.5

p910nd

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

• IN NEW
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514615
• http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/p910nd_0.93-1.html
• DONE, p910nd is now in Debian (20090328)

tinylogin

• Use fgetty DONE
• ASK busybox mantainers to enable login and getty applets http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523034
• tinylogin is obsolete and deprecated
• Related bugs:
  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113567
  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510058
• => use busybox-static (bad solution, can break server boot)

ltspfsd

• ALLOW TO INSTALL OUTSIDE CHROOT
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454478
• FIXED on 20090408 uploaded to experimental.
• TCOS now depends on ltspfsd-core

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

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• 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)

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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

• ASK linux-modules-extra-2.6 maintainer http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523760
  • http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-modules-extra-2.6.html
• Need:
  • cdfs
  • unionfs
  • squashfs
  • aufs
  • lzma???

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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