FAI 5.5 released and new ISO images

Andrew Ruthven andrew at etc.gen.nz
Thu Nov 9 10:48:37 CET 2017


On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 18:20 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> The new FAI version 5.5 supports a very nice feature in fcopy. Using
> -S,
> fcopy itself can do variable substitution, which may replace your
> preinst scripts. Until now preinst scripts for fcopy were used for
> doing variable substitution. We also got rid of the need to have
> aptitude installed.

I stumbled upon this new feature a couple of days ago. Fantastic, most
of my preinst fcopy scripts were doing exactly this.

But you missed my pull request on github to add -S to the help output
of the fcopy command. ;)

Thank you!

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