missing dependency in the latest testing version of fai

Travis Griggs tgriggs at key.net
Mon Oct 11 18:01:17 CEST 2004


On Oct 7, 2004, at 3:22, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:58:14 -0700, Travis Griggs 
> <tgriggs at key.net> said:
>
>     > Trying to move to a newer version of fai (i.e. the latest/current
>      > debian testing version). Spent a bit of time figuring out why we
>     > weren't getting all of our packages anymore. Turned out that we 
> needed
>     > to install libapt-pkg-perl. Just thought whoever is maintaining 
> the
>     > testing package might want to know that's currently missing. 
> Back to
>     > debugging. Thanks all.
>  libapt-pkg-perl is only needed in the nfsroot. You need it only on
>  your install server itself if you call install_packages on it. But
>  normally this is only done on the install client during the 
> installation.

Oh yes, you are right. My bad. In our case, it's because we use 
fai-bootcd. BTW, we have fai-bootcd working with the current testing 
version of fai. If anyone's interested in the hacks to at least make it 
work...

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
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at all" -- Boyd K Packer


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