Some packages not installing, but are in Ubuntu repos!

[Davinder Chandhok]

 Message-ID: <23207.57669.455031.281791 at informatik.uni-koeln.de>


>     >> Package list file (named for one of my classes):
>     >> https://pastebin.com/mQmsVs7p
> >Wow, I never saw someone who's using a version number for every
> package. Any reason why you did this? In case of any minor package
> updates, you have to change this file.
>

Ah, this is a beginner mistake then. We wanted to create an identical
install and some packages needed specific versions, so we were lazy and got
all of the specific versions. Removing version numbers resolved most of the
issues (including grub install). It's strange though that some packages had
those exact versions in the repos.


> >IMO this is a minor bug in FAI. FAI does not expect an uppercase
> letter in the version number.
>
Yes, this was not a problem for us, just a nice warning.


> >>WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list:
> collada-dom-dev=2.4.4.7-ubuntu1~trusty1 collada-dom2.4-dp-base=2.4.4.7
> -ubuntu1~trusty1
> >Another minor bug in FAI. When install_packages tries to check if the
> package name is correct this does not seem to work with =<version>
>
> >I strongly recommend to remove the version numbers from the
> package_config file.
>

So these errors above here are because the packages come from ROS
repositories and I didn't include those. I tried to include them in
/etc/fai/apt/sources.list but the repo was not recognized. I thought this
was the sources.list to adjust. Am I mistaken?

>E: Version '2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.14' for 'grub-common' was not found
> >E: Version '2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.14' for 'grub-pc' was not found
> >E: Version '2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.14' for 'grub-pc-bin' was not found
> >E: Version '2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.14' for 'grub2-common' was not found
>
> >That's why grub was not installed.
>
> >Didn't you read the log file yourself?
>

I apologize, I didn't realize forcing specific versions would cause this
problem. Now i have fixed it and I appreciate your help a lot!

PS: I replied to one of the earlier messages I received to thank the author
for helping, but it seems it did not go through. Should I be sending the
message directly to the server or to the message ID email?

Thanks again!
Davinder
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