fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

[Diane Trout]

> But have a closer look at cfengine, which is made for daily
> maintainance and making changes to the system. Maybe you only need to
> write some more cfegine scripts.

That reminds me of how I was thinking about solving the apt-get problem.

I was thinking of writing a package that parsed something like the
current FAI package_files and a cfengine classes list, and then
installs or uninstalls packages to match its the list of packages that
it's supposed to have.

If this "apt-daemon" existed it would be rather easy to update systems
instead of having to go reinstall. The reliability of a FAI install
should increase, mostly by shifting the complexity off to this
package.

In principal the advantages are that upgrades can be done completely
remotely and as automatically as you feel safe with. Also updates that
fail because someone was hasn't finished uploading all the debian
dependencies should be able to retry again later.

Any comments?

diane