Re: [Thinstation-developer] 2.2.2: problem with config files over wget

[Trevor B. <tre...@us...>]

> Elsewhere Trevor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:50 AM, TrevorB
> <tre...@us...> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 01:29 +0100, Tobias Paepke wrote:
> [CUT]
>>> I see a great potential in having a http-based config and package
>>> storage, thats why I did it. Don't want to discuss it anymore if its
>>> useless or not for anyone else.
>>
>> Already in 2.3 and works fine with 2.2 (I have been using it for the
>> last 2 years).
>> Additional param of baseurl to tell it where to look.
>>
>> You can use the packages/base/etc/init.d/network_files script from 2.3
>> in 2.2.2f, just make sure you include wget and add
>> param baseurl http://<your server>
>> into your build.conf
>
> There must be more to it than this. I took the network_files script
> from 2.3 (svn954), recompiled busybox with wget and added this to
> build.conf:
>
> param basepath       ts/
> param baseurl	     http://10.0.0.100/
>
> and this to build.conf.buildtime:
>
> NET_FILE_ENABLED=On
> NET_FILE_METHOD=wget
>
> booting from iso (Virtualbox) and this is a no-go. To debug I added
> these two debug lines to network_files:
> *********
> transport()
> {
>         local spath=$1 cpath=$2 server=$3
>
>         # Set default if variable not set
>         if [ -z "$NET_FILE_METHOD" ] ; then
>                 NET_FILE_METHOD=tftp
>         fi
>
>         case `make_caps $NET_FILE_METHOD` in
>         TFTP)
>                 echo "tftp -g -r $spath -l $cpath $server > /dev/null
> 2>&1"
>         ;;
>         SCP)
>                 echo "scp -BC $NET_FILE_USER@$server:$spath $cpath"
>         ;;
>         WGET)
> echo_log "\n BASEURL: $BASEURL; SERVER_NAME: $SERVER_NAME; SERVER_IP:
> $SERVER_IP \n" -n $debug
> echo_log "server: $server; spath: $spath; cpath: $cpath \n" -n $debug
>                 echo "wget -P /tmp $BASEURL"
>         ;;
>         esac
> }
> *********
> In boot.log I get:
> *********
> S07network_files
> Getting global configuration from (10.0.2.4)
>  BASEURL: ; SERVER_NAME: ; SERVER_IP: 10.0.2.4
>  server: 10.0.2.4; spath: ts//thinstation.conf.network; cpath:
> /tmp/thinstation.conf.network
>
> BusyBox v1.1.3 (2011.02.20-04:33+0000) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: wget [-c|--continue] [-q|--quiet] [-O|--output-document file]
> 		[--header 'header: value'] [-Y|--proxy on/off] [-P DIR] url
>
> Not Found
> Can't get global configuration file! Using default config
> Will continue boot in 5 seconds.....
> *********
> so the main problem is that $BASEURL turns up empty.

Probably because I forgot to tell you about the change for the build
script...

after setting basepath
if [ -e $PACDIR/baseurl.param ] ; then
  echo "BASEURL=$ts_baseurl" >> ./tmp-tree/etc/thinstation.defaults
fi

> It's a bit messy
> that it also writes "Getting global configuration from (10.0.2.4)"
> but that's cosmetics. 10.0.2.4 is the (virtual) DHCP server in Virtualbox.

Yep, needs a fix.

Trevor B
>
> Any ideas someone?
>
> Mike
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