Do you upgrade your chroot?

[john]

Thanks Andy,

Apparently not a hot topic for anyone else! :-)

John

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Andy Figueroa <figueroa at andyfigueroa.us> wrote:
> Good question.  I've had a small seven client LTSP computer lab running for
> about 18 months now.  It's running on Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04).  I have upgraded
> the chroot several times just to keep up-to-date for the sake of security.
>  (apt-get update then apt-get upgrade following the instructions in the
> Edubuntu handbook)
>
> Since you asked the question, I've just done it again a few minutes ago -
> good timing - since school starts back again tomorrow after the Christmas
> holiday.
>
> I was surprised to see that the last time I did this and rebuilt the image
> was in February 2009.  The old i386.img was 291954688 and the new image is
> 350814208.  No apparent issues. Tomorrow we'll see if the clients boot all
> right.  :-)
>
> I'm using/booting kernel vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic although -26 has been
> installed during regular updates.
>
> Andy Figueroa
>
> john wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sometimes I see a patch come down the the pipeline that makes me
>> wonder if I should be updating the file that lives in my chroot (the
>> recent tzdata file patch, for example). My normal practice is never to
>> update my chroot (on the "if it ain't broke..." principle), although I
>> do sometimes add software (most recently ntp for cron powered
>> shutodowns) to the chroot image.
>>
>> My understanding is that one of the big reasons for the move to LTSP5
>> was to integrate the native package management features into the
>> chroot environment under the theory that folks really wanted to keep
>> those environments up to date.
>>
>> So my question is: do you upgrade your chroot? Why or why-not?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>