use of aptitude instead of apt-get in FAI ?

[Stephan Hermann]

hi,

Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> Le jeu 23 aoû 2007 11:27:31 CEST, Thomas Lange
> <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> a écrit :
>
>   
>>>>>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:31:36 +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX <fboiteux at calistel.com> said:
>>>>>>>               
>>     >   I would like to use aptitude instead of apt-get during FAI packages
>>     > installation (to have packages dependencies knowledge) : is it
>>     > possible ?
>> Yes. In FAI 3.2 install_packages -h will give you a list of all
>> possible commands, that can be used after the PACKAGES keyword.
>> For aptitude just write: PACKAGES aptitude
>>
>> But even apt-get will resolv package dependencies.
>>     
>
>   I'm not sure I've well described my request : I don't only want to install aptitude during FAI installation, but also that FAI uses aptitude instead of apt-get to install all packages defined in packages/* files : is it possible ?
>   About the package dependencies, aptitude marks packages installed as a dependance of other ones, and can later remove it automatically when all its requesters have been removed...
>   
This is what "PACKAGES aptitude" is doing...using aptitude to install
packages during installation of a machine, it's not using apt-get anymore.
there are also examples in the package_config directory of FAIs config
space.

\sh