How to dynamically add a repository in FAI?

[Michael Goetze]

Hi Alex,

> Can someone suggest a way to install different versions of the same 
> package for different HW platforms?
> Our thoughts were the following.
> 1) Using instsoft hook, which is run before packages installation 
> process starts, to add HW specific repository for the platform handled.
> apt-get update is run after adding a HW repository to sources.list. We 
> tried this but didn't succeed.

Write an instsoft hook which just does

fcopy /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/preferences

Then you can put all the configuration for your Hardware CLASS in 
files/etc/apt/{sources.list,preferences}/CLASS.

Regards,
Michael