LTSP got a new mode called LTSP-PnP, where the image for clients is not
built from a debootstrapped chroot, but rather from the host filesystem,
with ways to strip unwanted contents and change details before packing
the squashfs.

That would make Debain Edu a lot more easy on disk resources and the
installation a lot quicker, an also ease updates and changes to the
environment.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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As far as I remember this has been developped some years ago for single purpose
LTSP installation (mostly at Greek schools).

It doesn't fit the Debian Edu case and is way to unflexible, i.e.
doesn't allow to serve LTSP clients with different archs.

Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

Hmm… I don't know where it originates, but following some threads on the
ltsp mailing list, they seem to consider it more or less the default.

Modifying the chroot or building for another arch requires manual
intervention anyway, so I am not sure whether using the PnP mode would
mean a regression.

Hi Nik, hi Wolfgang,

I agree with Wolfgang's position/perspective on this. Will mark this
bug report with "wontfix" tag and close it. Anyone, feel free to
reopen if you want to put some effort into this.

Thanks!
Mike