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Reported by kcr, 15 years ago.

Or at _least_, should get logged out if they kill -STOP it.

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

This is a separate issue from the fact that login chroots are slow. Quickstations are designed for short login sessions to quickly check mail or print documents. When it takes the better part of 1 minute (of your 10 minute session) to get a web browser, that's not good.

Our long term fix for this will end up being aufs or whatever we do to speed up login times in general. We need short term fixes, however, which we can deploy before we use up all public goodwill for Debathena.

Possible short term fixes:

1) Make quickstations closer to -workstation machines, and disable root access completely (i.e. No installing software). 2) Do something awesome with kiosk mode from gdm.

I think #1 is far less effort than #2, but that's just me. We should compare login times for -cluster and -workstation on similar hardware to verify that #1 will be an improvement.

Reported by andersk, 15 years ago.

Our original intention with the config-package-dev API was to disallow transformation of a generated conffiles, because there is no md5sum with which to check that the file is unmodified in the current build environment. Instead, one should transform the source of the generated conffile, e.g. /usr/share/kerberos-configs/krb.conf.template instead of /etc/krb.conf.debathena, as I think we do with all the current Debathena packages.

However, a quoting bug in check-files.mk causes this test to never trip:

$(call debian_check_files_tmp,%): package = $(shell dpkg -S $(name) | grep -v "^diversion by" | cut -f1 -d:)
$(call debian_check_files_tmp,%): $(truename)
	[ -n $(package) ]
	…

since both [ -n ] and [ -n foo ] return true.

Apparently XVM is a consumer of this API bug (/etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf in invirt-database), although that could easily be fixed.