Best way to install backports with FAI

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:43:17 -0600, "David Riddle" <driddle at gmail.com> said:

    > Hi,
    > I need X.org for some of my video hardware so I am using backports.org
    > for installing X. I was not sure if I could install X using the normal
    > FAI package system so I wrote the following short script/hook:

    > $ROOTCMD apt-get clean
    > $ROOTCMD apt-get -yt sarge-backports install x-window-system-core

    > This hook works fine but I am wondering if I there is a system in
    > place in FAI so that I can do this without a script. Is it possible to
    > somehow pass arguments to apt-get with FAI?

If you set up your sources.list correctly you may use this syntax in
package_config: 

PACKAGES install
package/testing

Because apt-get supports the syntax package/distro.
For more info see APT_PREFERENCES(5)
-- 
regards Thomas