How to debug install_packages?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Nov 27 01:05:53 CET 2008


>>>>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:41:30 +0100, Thomas Neumann <blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de> said:

    > How can I get more information on what's going on from install_packages? 
    > Is there a better way besides set -x and echo?
if you add verbose to FAI_FLAGS, install_packages is called with -v.

    > There's something fishy going on and I don't know what triggers it. 
    > During a Debian installation i_p tries to call yast and install 
    > kernel-xenpae. The only time this package is mentioned in my config 
    > space is in package_config/DEFAULT - but in a way that it should never 
    > be regarded as "must install this" for Debian (or Ubuntu).
Put your packages_config/DEFAULT and fai.log onto paste.debian.net and
we can help you.
-- 
regards Thomas


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