Selecting different debian releases

Bruce Edge bedge at troikanetworks.com
Thu Dec 5 18:38:39 CET 2002


On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 09:20, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On 05 Dec 2002 07:55:43 -0800, Bruce Edge <bedge at troikanetworks.com> said:
> 
>     > I've run into a need to select different debian releases for
>     > different classes.  What's the best way to do this?  Change
>     > fai.conf to include all releases in FAI_SOURCES_LIST and then
>     > switch in a different /etc/apt/preferences file for each class?
> That's a very good idea. And copy /etc/apt/preferences using fcopy.

That covers the issue of how to get the right preferences file onto the
target, but what about which one to use during the package_install
phase. 
Doesn't that default to the preferences file in the nfs root?
Or, is apt-get run under $ROOTCMD?


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Bruce Edge <bedge at troikanetworks.com>



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