ubuntu hoary FAI packages

[Ludwig Schwardt]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Henning Sprang wrote:
> It's a question if one really needs an extra nfsroot for every
> distribution, must it be always the same distri as the one that gets
> installed?

I've always handled woody and sarge from the same woody nfsroot. I simply 
define DEBIAN_STABLE and DEBIAN_TESTING classes, and then I fcopy the 
appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list early on in an updatebase hook script. The 
machine then gets dist-upgraded to the appropriate distro.

This is a very simple and convenient approach - you can specify the distro on a 
per-machine basis using classes, e.g. servers get DEBIAN_STABLE and workstations 
DEBIAN_TESTING. The only downside I see so far is that the base woody packages 
are installed just to be replaced again, so it is slightly slower.

Ludwig