install_packages seems to be excluding a lot of pakcages

[Justin Cattle]

I think I have found the cause, so please don't check anything Thomas.
I'll update with my findings soon :)
Hopefully you can help me understand the issue I've found.


Cheers,
Just


On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 09:02, Justin Cattle <j at ocado.com> wrote:

> I've also just tried the latest version of install_packages from git,
> Same thing.
>
>
> Like I said, I'm not a perl guy, but it seems like this is happening:
>
> The hash pname is built from packages listed in
> $FAI_ROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available , using the function create_debian_pkg_list
>
> clean_pkg_list parses all the files, using insert_pkg.  If insert_pkg
> doesn't find the file in pmap, it will return 0 and package falls
> into @unknown.
>
>
> So, I think this can be summarised as, if the package isn't declared in
> $FAI_ROOT/var/lib/dpkg/available, it will be removed from the installation
> list.
>
> If that's correct, then I'm slightly confused, because
> /var/lib/dpkg/available isn't a full list of packages available for
> installation via apt.
> Is there something I'm missing in FAI that normally populates that file
> with more of the packages from apt sources?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Just
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 08:02, Justin Cattle <j at ocado.com> wrote:
>
>> Apologies, forgot to add that info.
>>
>> FAI 5.3.6
>> nfsroot is debian squeeze, and building ubuntu trusty in this case
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Just
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 22:37, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >>>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 21:59:09 +0000, Justin Cattle <j at ocado.com>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>     > This is a FAI system that I haven't used for a while, and I'm not
>>> 100% how the config has changed if at all.
>>>
>>>     > When it get to task instsoft, it fails to include most of the
>>> packages from the package_config files.  It includes just a few.
>>> Which FAI version are you using?
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards Thomas
>>>
>>

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