Class Reading order

[Ryan Steele]

Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote:
> Hi FAI list,
> 
> Here I am again.
> I am writing some documentation for my thesis on how FAI understand classes.
> 
> Let's suppose that I define my own class XUBUNTUDESKTOP.
> I mean I edit 50-host-classes and I add:
> 
>   xubuntudesktop*)
>   	echo "FAIBASE DHCPC XUBUNTUDESKTOP";;
> 
> Let's suppose that I add a file
> named XUBUNTUDESKTOP in the package_config dir in the fai configuration
> folder
> so that install the xubuntu-desktop metapackage.
> 
> 
> Is it correct to say:
> 
> FAI will automatically install the packages found on these files (in this
> order): XUBUNTUDESKTOP, DHCPC, FAIBASE, DEFAULT, LAST and finally as an
> option a file that has the same name as the host we are installing?
> 
> There are some implicit questions here:
>    - The latter defined class gets more preference?
>    - DEFAULT is it class that it is always interpreted?
>    - LAST is it class that it is always interpreted?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help.

I asked a similar question awhile back - you might try searching the
archives.

Respectfully,
Ryan