fai package splitting

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Fri Nov 4 08:27:46 CET 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:02:46AM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:58:50 +0100, Michael Tautschnig <michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com> said:
> 
>     > So - why don't we introduce a fai-common package? Alternatively, we might also
>     > call it fai-config.
> Since the default fai.conf has to be changed by the sysadmin before
> calling make-fai-nfsroot, IMHO we can't include it into fai-client or
> create a fai-common package.

Why?
fai-server depends on fai-client and can use its conffile.
having a fai.conf on all the clients which 'officially' doesn't belong to
fai-client (and isn't marked as a conffile in the dpkg sense) is much more 
dangerous.

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c u
henning



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