On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:43:00 +0100, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Do we already have the syntax definition of the package_files?
Is FAI aware of unstalling packages?
Of course, FAI can remove and purge packages.
Only tasksel can't remove package. But that's the fault of
On 13 Nov 2001 16:11:30 -0800, Diane Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was thinking of writing a package that parsed something like
the current FAI package_files and a cfengine classes list, and
then installs or uninstalls packages to match its the list of
packages that it's
Is it possible to check out the current CVS tree? I tried
Surely ! But you used the wrong commands. Here they are (as mentioned
in the fai guide):
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot login
just type return
Then check out using:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL
Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why using classes from cfengine ? If a machine was installed using
Because in my environment there are machines that aren't installed
with FAI. For example most of my coworkers have laptops that they
installed, it would be nice to provide a method for
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:44:30AM -0800, Diane Trout wrote:
How about apt-class?
Unless the tool will rely upon apt and dpkg alone, I would stay away
from the apt-\(.*\) namespace. Currently, the classes that FAI uses are
defined by two things: scripts and lists. The scope of a class is far
How about apt-class?
I wouldn't use anything in the apt or dpkg namespace.
Looking into the problem slightly further, it looks like the easiest
solution is to write out a selections file that could be installed via
dpkg --set-selections and then use a apt-get dselect-upgrade to
actually
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thomas Lange wrote:
To take advantage of the hold state, I'd need to add a PACKAGE
hold to the current package_config file format. A held package
Do you know, how to set a package on hold ? Tell me, and I will
implement it into install_packages.
You already
