"clone" an example client?

[Frank Lienhard]

On 12/08/2011 10:02 AM, Frank Lienhard wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 03:07 AM, Brian Kroth wrote:
>> Henning Sprang <henning.sprang at gmail.com> 2011-12-07 23:54:
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Frank Lienhard <frank at saliko.de> wrote:
>>>> I have an i386 client, which I installed manually and I'm now 
>>>> wondering how
>>>> to setup future clients "identical" to that with FAI
>>>>
>>>> at least to have the package selection transfered to the FAI config 
>>>> would
>>>> save a lot of work, I think
>>>
>>> you could use the output of dpkg -l
>>> but you should probably remove stuff staring with lib
>>> and you could install a basic system and remove everything that's in
>>> there already from the list.
>>>
>>> Also, there are logs from apt/aptitude that could show you which
>>> packages you installed manually.
>>>
>>> You could do something similar by diffing the /etc of the manuall
>>> system with the system after installing all packages to identify
>>> manually changed configs.
>>> If you know that you will install the system with fai after (e.g. in
>>> an early development stage) fiddling with it manully, you could use
>>> git ot etckeeper to see which changes you really made to /etc - or
>>> just saving all files you edit with %-orig before changing them.
>>>
>>> Henning
>>
>> If the client is recent, aptitude will tell you what's been manually 
>> requested and installed versus what's been installed as a dependency 
>> (eg: libs that were referred to previously).
>>
>> Here's what I usually use, though I know there's some other commands 
>> out there to do something similar in a more elegant way:
>>
>> # aptitude search . | grep ^i | grep -v '^i A' | awk '{ print $2 }'
>>
>> Brian
> OK, I think I still miss something essential.
> I understand that the above aptitude line gives me all packages which 
> have to be installed and all others will get installed via dependencies.
> But I'm supposed to put this in the /etc/fai/NFSROOT file?
> I guess not, because I think I don't have to have them all in the 
> nfsroot dir.
> So can someone point me the right direction to the docu/config files 
> (I'm somewhat lost in the FAI docu..)
>
> Thanks
OK: Me-> to impatient :-)
/srv/fai/config  I'm exploring that, but I'll be back ;-)