apt-get failures -- blah!
Chad Walstrom
chad at ima.umn.edu
Fri Nov 9 23:00:35 CET 2001
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:28:12PM +0000, Martin_J Carter wrote:
> >listed package. Apt fails out and FAI continues on as if nothing
> >happened.
>
> Yup: We get similar effects here, for an HTTP-based FAI install,
> whenever our local web cache system wimps out. This invariably
> happens for enormous files in the middle of a workstation install
> during business hours. Starting 45-min installations after 18:00 on a
> regular basis is not good for domestic bliss :-( .
We bit the bullet here and dedicated a PPro workstation as the FAI
server, put a large harddrive, and mirrored all the sites we need for
the i386 install. NFS mounted mirror drives make the install process
MUCH faster, especially without the overhead of HTTP/FTP and copying
files to the local drive.
...[snip]...
> Why not optionally halt on error? then we can see what's gone wrong as
> soon as possible, and whether or not it can then be continued with a
> little manual intervention. Or have I missed something as usual?
That's certainly an option. I would simply like apt to try to process
as much of the install list as possible. Then, if we can make the FAI
soft-update script work a little cleaner, we wouldn't have to rerun the
entire install process.
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