fai package splitting

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Nov 7 20:03:57 CET 2005


>>>>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:46:35 +0100, Henning Glawe <glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de> said:

    > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
    >> >>>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:27:46 +0100, Henning Glawe <glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de> said:
    >> 
    >> >> 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.
    >> Mmm, I think we can move fai.conf to the fai-client package. But
    >> should we also move /etc/fai/sources.list to fai-client?

    > IMHO not, as it is not used there.
It is used there! Currently make-fai-nfsroot copies it to the install
client root and later to the new system.
-- 
regards Thomas



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