From steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de  Thu Dec  1 13:09:21 2016
From: steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de (Steffen Grunewald)
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:09:21 +0100
Subject: add debconf lines to existing setup?
Message-ID: <20161201120920.GI13278@casco.aei.mpg.de>

Good afternoon,

during FAI installation, $faiconfig/debconf/$class files are added to the
debconf database. This has been working all the time.

Now, I've got a package upgrade which requires setting some (new) values - 
how do I add these settings to an existing, running setup?
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule apparently doesn't work (and db_set therefore
cannot be used).
Do I have to install debconf-utils and use debconf-set-selections, or is 
there a faster way?

Thanks,
 Steffen

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From lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de  Mon Dec 12 23:40:18 2016
From: lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de (Thomas Lange)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:40:18 +0100
Subject: FAI 5.3.2, new ISO iamges, tar package from backports
Message-ID: <22607.10066.93360.319908@kueppers.informatik.uni-Koeln.de>

I released FAI 5.3.2 (see
http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/FAI_5.3.2/) and created new ISO
images for download. I've also put a version of tar from backports
into the fai-project.org package repository, since it fixes a problem
when extracting Ubuntu base files.

-- 
regards Thomas

From abezella at archive.org  Wed Dec 14 23:40:43 2016
From: abezella at archive.org (andrew bezella)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:40:43 -0800
Subject: dirinstall overwrites hostname in fai 5.3
Message-ID: <1481755243.7454.77.camel@abezella-laptop.us.archive.org>

hello -

i don't have cycles to spend debugging this now, but it appears that in
fai 5.3 a dirinstall is changing the hostname on the host system again.
verified that 5.3.2 has this issue, 5.1.2 does not.  unsure exactly
where/when it was introduced.

on a somewhat related note (involving dirinstalls) i was curious about
the change where the $LOGSERVER variable was moved from fai.conf to the
configuration space (as noted in
http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Variables).  in a typical dirinstall
this is not used ($LOGUSER is unset in `/usr/lib/fai/subroutines`). but
there are situations where the system is unable to get the config space,
in which case fai tries to save the logs for a "noaction" event.  since
$LOGSERVER is in the configspace, it falls back to $SERVER which is not
going to work (for our setup).  i guess the question is whether it could
be moved back to fai.conf or if there was a pressing need for it to be
relocated.  minor issue, though.

thanks!

andy 

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From lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de  Thu Dec 15 13:25:44 2016
From: lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de (Thomas Lange)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:25:44 +0100
Subject: new dracut and tar version in FAI package repository
Message-ID: <22610.35784.334098.954349@paeffgen.informatik.uni-Koeln.de>

JFYI:

I've added a new dracut version (044+189-2~bpo8+1) and a tar package
(1.29b-1~bpo8+1) from backports into the fai-project.org package
repository for jessie.

-- 
regards Thomas

From d.gavrilovic at gmail.com  Sat Dec 24 03:13:08 2016
From: d.gavrilovic at gmail.com (Darko Gavrilovic)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:13:08 -0500
Subject: Adding extra apt keys to clients
Message-ID: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, I added the repo in apt.sources.d from my fai config files. But
I am stuck on trying to add extra keys to  FAI clients.

I tried it two ways.

I tried the below and ran the client install and it did not seem to
recognize the GP repo key.

wget -O - http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key
| chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/ apt-key add -

I also tried it by by adding a line in

/srv/fai/config/scripts/HADOOP/10-misc

# add the apt key for salt
$ROOTCMD wget -O -
http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key |
apt-key add -

as the last task it does before reboot. and that didn't work either.

Is there a correct way to add this?

I am using FAI 4.3.1

dg

From steven.wend at t-online.de  Sat Dec 24 09:20:24 2016
From: steven.wend at t-online.de (Steven Wend)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:20:24 +0100
Subject: Adding extra apt keys to clients
In-Reply-To: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <440efd31-bb92-6424-071f-f84ce223ce9b@t-online.de>

Hi Darko,

have a look inside the example configuration under
/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/ . There is an example how to add
another repository including the necessary crypto material based on a
FAI class.

Regards,
Steven

On 24.12.2016 03:13, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:
> Hello, I added the repo in apt.sources.d from my fai config files. But
> I am stuck on trying to add extra keys to  FAI clients.
> 
> I tried it two ways.
> 
> I tried the below and ran the client install and it did not seem to
> recognize the GP repo key.
> 
> wget -O - http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key
> | chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/ apt-key add -
> 
> I also tried it by by adding a line in
> 
> /srv/fai/config/scripts/HADOOP/10-misc
> 
> # add the apt key for salt
> $ROOTCMD wget -O -
> http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key |
> apt-key add -
> 
> as the last task it does before reboot. and that didn't work either.
> 
> Is there a correct way to add this?
> 
> I am using FAI 4.3.1
> 
> dg
> 

From steven.wend at t-online.de  Sat Dec 24 09:29:44 2016
From: steven.wend at t-online.de (Steven Wend)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:29:44 +0100
Subject: Adding extra apt keys to clients
In-Reply-To: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3238446c-cd39-4175-27d7-67f2f3dbdee4@t-online.de>

Hi again,

a second comment.

On 24.12.2016 03:13, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:
> Hello, I added the repo in apt.sources.d from my fai config files. But
> I am stuck on trying to add extra keys to  FAI clients.
> 
> I tried it two ways.
> 
> I tried the below and ran the client install and it did not seem to
> recognize the GP repo key.
> 

> wget -O - http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key
> | chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/ apt-key add -

Chrooting into the nfs root means you will change the system which
"does" your installation.

> 
> I also tried it by by adding a line in
> 
> /srv/fai/config/scripts/HADOOP/10-misc

In this case you will try to configure your target, thats fine.

> 
> # add the apt key for salt
> $ROOTCMD wget -O -
> http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key |
> apt-key add -

Should work out. But I'am not sure about the pipe and chroot. You should
debug your script. Add "set -x". And it is pretty easy to "debug" and
"test". Do not restart your Installation automatically, keep it alive
and connect via ssh. Use mount to see where your configuration is
mounted. After that you can rerun all your scripts.

> 
> as the last task it does before reboot. and that didn't work either.
> 
> Is there a correct way to add this?
> 
> I am using FAI 4.3.1
> 
> dg
> 

From d.gavrilovic at gmail.com  Sat Dec 24 15:42:49 2016
From: d.gavrilovic at gmail.com (Darko Gavrilovic)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:42:49 -0500
Subject: Adding extra apt keys to clients
In-Reply-To: <440efd31-bb92-6424-071f-f84ce223ce9b@t-online.de>
References: <CAGYSLOfP+PSAw__QA=DP4e7Cx09=otresngux-mwTn6TYMqfLw@mail.gmail.com>
 <440efd31-bb92-6424-071f-f84ce223ce9b@t-online.de>
Message-ID: <CAGYSLOdxg85Af5_m4ME32Pd_eGrwyNR1RZdGiY_VKcEo514H=w@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks. I followed the examples and basically did away with my scripts
and just added it as an .asc file into /srv/fai/config/package_config



On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Steven Wend <steven.wend at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Darko,
>
> have a look inside the example configuration under
> /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/ . There is an example how to add
> another repository including the necessary crypto material based on a
> FAI class.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> On 24.12.2016 03:13, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:
>> Hello, I added the repo in apt.sources.d from my fai config files. But
>> I am stuck on trying to add extra keys to  FAI clients.
>>
>> I tried it two ways.
>>
>> I tried the below and ran the client install and it did not seem to
>> recognize the GP repo key.
>>
>> wget -O - http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key
>> | chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/ apt-key add -
>>
>> I also tried it by by adding a line in
>>
>> /srv/fai/config/scripts/HADOOP/10-misc
>>
>> # add the apt key for salt
>> $ROOTCMD wget -O -
>> http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key |
>> apt-key add -
>>
>> as the last task it does before reboot. and that didn't work either.
>>
>> Is there a correct way to add this?
>>
>> I am using FAI 4.3.1
>>
>> dg
>>