Local partial Debian mirror under Solaris

[Ronan KERYELL]

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:35:51 +0300 (EEST), Alexander List <alexlist at ees2.oulu.fi> said:

    Alexander> Hello, I am currently about to install FAI in our test
    Alexander> network. Our policies strictly prohibit any kind of
    Alexander> outbound network connections from that net.  So I have to
    Alexander> set up a local partial Debian mirror on a machine that has
    Alexander> access to the Internet and then push those files to our
    Alexander> internal net.

    Alexander> Our environment is pure Solaris, and I tried to run
    Alexander> mkdebmirror mentioned in the FAI installation guide on
    Alexander> Solaris.

    Alexander> Now I'm running into severe troubles... there are some
    Alexander> portability problems with debmirror. Is anybody aware of a
    Alexander> clean alternative that will work on Solaris?

I am thinking to offer an access to a tar.gz of my /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot or
even an anonymous NFS access to ease boot-strapping FAI from scratch (I
mean when you do not have any working Debian machine to install FAI on
it).

But it should be easier if /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/etc/fai/fai.conf was not
in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot. Adding a FAI option in bootptab for it ? It'd be
useful for other usages anyway...
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