Comment 21 for bug 1861481

On 2020-02-07 13:41, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> The "grep cow" approach breaks the LTSP package and other software
> that uses a COW root.

Do those packages cause the file system /cow, listed by the df command, to be mounted? If yes, I wouldn't mind to modify the debdiff. Please let me know.

> To check for casper, please `grep -w boot=casper /proc/cmdline` or
> something casper-specific.

Thanks for the tip!

> In schools, we sometimes have students of various nationalities.
> They're not frequent enough to install whole langpacks for them, but
> they are frequent enough to configure locales for them (locale-gen).

It's unclear to me why it's more difficult to install language packs than generating locales separately.

In any case, I would prefer to consider this aspect to be beyond the scope of this bug report.

> Of course it's your call.

Yes. :)