Status FAI & potato

[Thomas Lange]

Because many people needs FAI urgently, I've put a first deb file to

http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/beta/fai_1.1-alpha-1.deb

you can install fai on a potato system with dpkg -i fai_1.1-alpha-1.deb

THIS IS NOT A RELEASE ! The version numbering may be change in future.


Status:

Currently I'm testing fai a little bit, but most things are running
fine. I'm reading many manual how to become a Debian package
maintainer, in order to make fai a real debian package. This is a lot
of work. After that a new documentation will be written. I think the
directory layout is good and should only be changed if is violates
FHS.

There are configuration templates, that are copied to
/usr/local/share/fai. This is where your configuration is located now.

> I would like to know what the exact problems are and how we can help
> solving them, the sooner the better. If we could download the "daily
> builds", that would be great. If there's anything that would help
> speeding up the release of potato fai, please let us know, we need fai
> very hard.
Please test it and send bugs reports or comments to the mailling list.

There's a big problem with libpaperg_1.0.3-12.2.deb which breaks fai
installation. So I copied /dev/null to libpaperg_1.0.3-12.2 on my
local mirror, so that libpaperg will not be installed.

New features: look at the file NEWS. 



I hope, I've help you with this quick hack !

-- 
Gruss Thomas
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            Thomas Lange
Institut fuer Informatik        mailto:lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
   Universitaet zu Koeln
            Pohligstr. 1        Telefon: +49 221 470 5303
             50969 Koeln        Fax    : +49 221 470 5317
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