fai-mirror, fai-cd and backports

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue May 5 00:08:36 CEST 2015


>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein at gmx.com> said:

    > If I add 'hplip/precise-backports' to the packages file, this works for
    > the normal installation, but it does not for the CDs. The reason is that
    > fai-mirror creates a new repository named 'cskoeln', so FAI/apt cannot
    > find the 'precise-backports' repo when running from CD.
    > I could use apt-pinning instead by creating a respective file in
    > ${target}/etc/apt/preferences.d right before task_instsoft. This would,
    > however, make it neccessary to make fai-mirror use the same pinning when
    > creating the mirror. I have not found a way of doing that short of
    > directly editing the script, which I would rather not do.

    > Any ideas how to solve this cleanly?
No. I guess this has to be done with the help of reprepro which is used
by fai-mirror. Any patches are welcome.

-- 
regards Thomas


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