with 3~beta21 too, was: Re: "E: Broken packages" with 2.8

[Toni Mueller]

Hello Henning,

I'm on the list. So, please don't Cc me.

On Mon, 18.09.2006 at 12:28:31 +0200, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 9/18/06, Toni Mueller <support-fai at oeko.net> wrote:
> >I band-aided the problem and turned the 'install' into an 'aptitude' in
> >fai/NFSROOT, removing some conflicting packages by hand.
> >Is that the suggested course of action, or am I heading for other problems (except
> >maybe increased disk usage)?
> 
> Maybe you will be missing programs needed in the install process in
> the nfsroot if yoiu just randomly remove packages.

The conflicts occurred amongst the packages I added manually, so I
don't think there'll be a problem. Also, I have a habit of replacing
'joe' (or was it 'jove'?) with vim, but that shouldn't have any impact
on the system either. ;-)

> You are using a developer version from the FAI apt repository, or the
> version from Debian testing.

The version I'm using comes from Debian unstable. The latest version I
found in the Cologne FAI repository was 2.10.5. I chose to try the
3-something version when I hit too many problems with the 2.x version
(latest problems were something with dpkg and no way to create a
working NFSROOT), and that I'll need to have 3.x to install Etch OR on
amd64 anyway. So... I think I'll probably change the configuration to
(try to) install testing instead of sarge RSN. I also understood some
of the mails on this list as meaning that 2.10.x is more or less EOL'ed
already.

> Fai 3 and above isn't made to work on a sarge server and to install
> sarge clients. This has been announced a while ago.

Ugh. I somehow managed to miss the announcement that it won't run on a
sarge server. Where should I be looking?

> We still might be able to add smaller fixes which are easy for us to
> apply if there is no too much work to help you keep using fai 3 and
> above with sarge, but it will not be our focus.

Ok, understood. I hoped to deploy this server before Etch, however.

> But If the only change that make FAI 3 still work on sarge, to install
> sarge, are in the config files, then  this should be documented in the
> wiki, I think.  Would be nice of you if you could provide you full
> NFSROOT config file there to help others.

Once I get it working...


Best,
--Toni++