addpackages removed in FAI 2.9?

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:09:21 +0100, henning <henning_sprang at gmx.de> said:


    > It's a major problem that we support some things via our example 
    > configs, but in fact, as soon as you have invested a decent amount of 
    > time into developing you own config space, it's nearly impossible to 
    > keep a custom configspace in sync with the simple examples  - but then 
    > eventually things brake when you update to a new FAI version.
The simple examples are only for beginners as a good starting point. I
think everybody using FAI for a couple of hosts will modify the simple
examples, or create their own classes. So they do not like to get
upgrades for their config space when upgrading the fai packages. The
fai package and the simple examples are not strictly releated to each
other, that means fai does not depends on the simples examples.
They best is to not upgrade you config space with new examples once
you are happy with your own config space. Or do not use FAIBASE and
the other classes provided by the simples examples. IMO noone likes to
keep his config space in sync with the simple examples.


    > It should be no problem to support two type of configspaces, anyway. One 
    > exactly as the old one, another one where everything starts with 
    > CLASSNAMES, then the normal structure. Both get parsed.
I'll bett that will make most fai users confused.

If you want to keep all files (under fai/files) for one class in one
directory tree, you may want to use ftar for deploying a lot of files
in a simple manner.
-- 
regards Thomas