FAI packaging

[Esben Haabendal Soerensen]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Gebhardt <gebhardt at HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE> writes:

Thomas> Hi,
>> I will not burden you all with details about my failed try to
>> install the fai 1.1 debian package on my woody workstation but will
>> instead make a suggestion:
>> 
>> Until a descent debian package has been made, is it possible to
>> also package a tar-ball with all the necessary files ?

Thomas> you can extract the tar file from the deb package:

Thomas> dpkg --fsys-tarfile fai-<version>.deb > fai.tar

Thomas> The control information can be extracted with

Thomas> dpkg -e fai-<version>.deb

Thomas> which creates a subdirectory DEBIAN that contains the postinst
Thomas> script (and other control information)

Great.  Thanks!

/bart
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