irritating messages during softupdates

[Michael Pfeiffer]

Hello,

while troubleshooting a problem with conflicting libraries, i found some 
confusing messages in fai.log and shell.log, and I don't quite know what 
to do about them (if anything):

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Adding debconf data from /var/lib/fai/config/debconf/LINUXBASE
Calling task_repository
fcopy: Nonexisting directory /var/lib/fai/config/files/etc/resolv.conf. 
No files
  copied.
cp: `/etc/resolv.conf' and `//etc/resolv.conf' are the same file
fcopy: Nonexisting directory /var/lib/fai/config/files/etc/hosts. No 
files copied.
cp: `/etc/hosts' and `//etc/hosts' are the same file
fcopy: Nonexisting directory 
/var/lib/fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list. No files copied.
cp: cannot stat `/etc/fai/apt/sources.list': No such file or directory
fcopy: Nonexisting directory 
/var/lib/fai/config/files/etc/apt/preferences. No files copied.
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Now, am I right that the messages are concerning access to the config 
space on the _client_?

If so, why would I need any information there?

How can I get rid of these messages or can I just safely ignore them?

thanks in advance for any support
Michael