debootstrapping multidistributions

[mamadou diop]

Hi Frederik,

In the FAI guide, it is said to adjust the sources.list file after placing
the base.tgz in the basefiles/ directory.
There are two sources.list files : one in the /etc/fai/apt and another in
the base.tgz. Which one of them needs
to be adjusted.

2010/11/23 Fredrik Eriksson <fredrik.eriksson at axis.com>

> mamadou diop wrote:
>
>> Because of the sources.list file which only points to a Debian release at
>> a given time, it seems to me
>> that it is impossible to install simultaneously Debian clients with
>> differents releases. Is my opinion true?
>>
> We actually have this in our current testing environment.
> What you typically want is to have two files in your fai/config/ tree, a
> sources.list file and a hook script (at least this is how we solve it). The
> sources.list file should be named after a class, where you for example
> define what distribution to run, and be put in
> fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/, i.e
> fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/LENNY_AMD64.
> As for the hook script ours is called fai/config/hooks/updatebase.DEFAULT
> and is a small shell script to say the least:
>
> #! /bin/bash
>
> fcopy -Bi /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> What it does is that it takes the file based on your defined class, for
> example fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/SQUEEZE_X86, and copy it to
> /etc/apt/sources.list on your target system. Thus you can have multiple
> sources.list files aimed at different releases (and distributions or
> architectures if needed).
>
> I hope this answers your question.
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Fredrik
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/attachments/20101125/ae036c73/attachment.html>