FAI 3.2.9 released, lenny support

Cajus Pollmeier cajus at naasa.net
Thu Aug 14 11:38:19 CEST 2008


Am Donnerstag, 14. August 2008 11:10:22 schrieb Henning Sprang:
> Christopher Huhn wrote:
> >> I just uploaded the new FAI version 3.2.9, which now supports the next
> >> Debian version called lenny.
> >
> > Does that mean that 3.2.9 does not support installing etch anymore?
>
> We did not test it on an Etch server, and did not test Etch
> installations from the Lenny server, but there's a high chance 3.2.9
> will still work when installed on an Etch server.
>
> Apart from that, you will always be able to install Etch, even from a
> Lenny server, by unpacking an Etch base image from basefiles, fcopying a
> sources.list with Etch repositories, and define only packages available
> in Etch in your configspace.
>
> It's the same method you(could) use for installing Ubuntu and Lenny from
> an Etch Server, and it works quite well.
>
> > At least there are no 3.2.9 Etch packages up to now.
>
> Yes, we don't intend to deliver Etch packages from this version on.
>
> Henning

I've tested it on etch and it works. You've to replace the dependencies, 
though.

-> Build-Depends-Indep: debiandoc-sgml, tetex-bin, tetex-extra

Cheers,
Cajus


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