fai dirinstall does not check for errors in task instsoft

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, when using FAI's dirinstall the task instsoft does not seem to be checked for any errors. The attached patch works at least for me (though you might want to improve the die-message :)). Maybe we want to implement some additional checks as well? I also noticed that 'fai dirinstall' seems to

Re: Unittesting via Grml?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 05:48:20PM +0200]: recently we started to work towards unittests for Grml (http://grml.org/ - a Debian based live system which ships and uses FAI as part of the grml-live buildsystem). Our unittests provide a way to be able to

Re: debootstrap for RPM based distributions

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de [Thu May 13, 2010 at 06:02:30PM +0200]: Just for the archive. Message-ID: 2010-05-23t03-16...@devnull.michael-prokop.at There's a tool called rinse (part of xen-tools), which can created a minimal chroot environment for RPM based distributions.

Re: should fai-client depend on fai-setup-storage?

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de [Sat Jun 19, 2010 at 12:58:49PM +0200]: I'm wondering if fai-client should really depend on fai-setup-storage? Instead, I would prefer it recommends fai-setup-storage and maybe fai-nfsroot depends on fai-setup-storage. Does this make sense? As you

Report from FAI developer workshop 07/2010

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, last weekend (2010-07-02 – 2010-07-04) nine people met at the FAI developer workshop at Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. A report about the meeting is available at: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2010/07/08/report-from-fai-developer-workshop-072010/ Thanks a lot to our sponsors (Debian,

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org [Thu Jul 22, 2010 at 11:14:13PM -0400]: I'm happy though that you are fine with Mikap (or me) fixing fai 3.3.x in sid and squeeze for the time being (while you (and others) work on the good goal of fai 4.0. Mikap, if you need help with that, I'm happy to

FAI Stable release 3.4.0

2010-08-07 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, DebConf10 in New York just finished and as a result we are proud to be able to announce a new FAI release, version 3.4.0. Out of more than 130 svn commits since the last stable release (3.3.5) Thomas and me chose ~75 commits that should make it into a new stable release. This new stable

FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-07 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, if anyone wants to see patches included (which Thomas and me consider for inclusion in Debian squeeze) or you notice that we forgot anything in the 3.4.x release please let me know. It would be great if you could provide your patches through the svn in people/experimental or otherwise just

Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.0

2010-08-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 12:15:56PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: Upgrading from previous versions of FAI to the 3.4.0 release is supposed to be easy and should not break anything (we tried to take special care and be as backwards compatible

Re: FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 01:01:33PM +0200]: if anyone wants to see patches included (which Thomas and me consider for inclusion in Debian squeeze) or you notice that we forgot anything in the 3.4.x release please let me know. It would be great if you

Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.0

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Sat Aug 14, 2010 at 06:35:00PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: Shouldn't be a problem at all, currently I'm waiting for ftp-masters to accept the 3.4.0 release through NEW (as we've a new binary package). By the way, the stable branch

Re: FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 01:00:53PM +0200]: That proposal for patch-comment formatting clashes a bit with automated builds on alioth: The script on alioth expects the patch author's name in the first line and a detailed explanation to be given

Re: FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 06:48:42PM +0200]: * Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 03:49:17PM +0200]: [...] (nice and detailed explanation of intended stable workflow) Is this correct? Does it sound reasonable and would be fine for

Re: FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 07:37:00AM +0200]: Can you please commit your setup-storage_do-partition-table-first to a branch so I can sync it for 3.4.1 release? I'll take the freedom to merge this into trunk and bump the beta revision; I'm sure that's

Re: FAI stable release 3.4.x management

2010-08-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* Sebastian Harl s...@tokkee.org [Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 01:48:56PM +0200]: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:39:57PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: * Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 03:49:17PM +0200]: If there are more use cases for git we might consider adding a git

Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.0

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [Sun Aug 08, 2010 at 02:39:31AM +0200]: DebConf10 in New York just finished and as a result we are proud to be able to announce a new FAI release, version 3.4.0. [...] FAI 3.4.0 was just uploaded to Debian/unstable and is available also through http

Re: Bug#595365: Intent to 0-day NMU FAI 3.4.1 to fix #595365

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Wed Sep 15, 2010 at 07:26:42PM +0200]: Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de wrote: I see no reason why to do an NMU. Mika is on vacation until tomorrow, and he will care about the fix after that. There's no reason to hurry. Great. Maybe my

Re: [PATCH] Make preserve work for RAID in FAI 3.4.x

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Thu Sep 16, 2010 at 05:41:37PM +0200]: Preserving a RAID volume doesn't work in 3.4.x: - mdadm --detail --scan doesn't give information on non-assembled arrays, leading setup-storage to think there aren't any; - preserved arrays must be assembled

Re: [RFC] setup-storage: generate scripts for partition table (re)creation

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 10:01:44PM +0200]: I have an idea for a small new feature in setup-storage, and I'm looking for some feedback to gauge interest. The idea is to generate a script for each device that can be used to recreate the partition table after the

Re: [PATCH] Make preserve work for RAID in FAI 3.4.x

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 10:21:12PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: Mika, can this make it into a 3.4.3? Do you want a bug in the BTS? If Michael Tautschnig as setup-storage maintainer acknowledges the patch and either you or MT applies it to svn

Re: RFC: Stable Release Management

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 10:11:33AM +0200]: IMHO it's a good practice for any project to document existing policies, workflows and the way developers handle their stuff. As a starting point I thought about documenting my workflow WRT stable release

Re: Request-for-Review of Stable Release 3.4.3 (was: Another issue with RAID preserve in 3.4.x)

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de [Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 04:05:32PM +0200]: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org said: It's a bit more than a ping: I think we urgently need some definite information on the kernel command line issues

FAI Stable release 3.4.3 available (was: FAI Stable release candaidate 3.4.3~rc1)

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org [Tue Oct 05, 2010 at 07:51:30AM +0200]: to match the deadline for the upcoming Ubuntu release (-Stephan) I've prepared a release candidate version of the upcoming stable release of FAI, version 3.4.3. Binary packages of FAI 3.4.3~rc1 are available at:

FAI Stable release 3.4.4 (was: FAI Stable release 3.4.3 available)

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org [Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 09:30:51PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: I will upload 3.4.3 to Debian/unstable after getting ACK from Thomas, I'll ask the release managers for a release exception WRT squeeze then as well. Any news from Thomas? Yes

Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.4 (was: FAI Stable release 3.4.3 available)

2010-10-10 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 11:59:43PM +0200]: And finally we have to verify the hostname-HOSTNAME issue, see https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2010-October/008400.html I think I've news regarding this issue. Can someone please do me a favour and test

FAI stable release 3.4.5 available

2010-12-01 Thread Michael Prokop
) unstable; urgency=low | | [ Michael Prokop ] | * [0e587c4] conf/NFSROOT: provide commented (and not activated) linux- | image line for lenny - thanks to Thomas Lange | * [530261d] conf/sources.list: replace lenny with squeeze - thanks to | Thomas Lange | * [d59d35f] fai

FAI stable release 3.4.6 available

2010-12-23 Thread Michael Prokop
| * [20e21b3] setup-storage/Commands.pm: Fix dependencies between disk | and LVM commands. (closes: #606113) - thanks to Mathieu Alorent | malor...@echo.fr, Nicolas Courtel cour...@cena.fr | | [ Michael Prokop ] | * [691bc38] task_mountdisks(): catch every exit code != 0 from mount2dir

3.4.7 (was: Re: FAI stable release 3.4.6 available)

2010-12-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [Thu Dec 23, 2010 at 02:09:33PM +0100]: the new FAI stable release 3.4.6 has been relased and is available through Debian/unstable, http://people.debian.org/~mika/fai/release/ and also will be available through the squeeze repository on fai-project.org soon

Re: Schedule for FAI release 3.4.8

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Goetze mgoe...@mgoetze.net [Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 05:16:54PM +0100]: On 02/16/2011 04:37 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: I'd like to release FAI 3.4.8 in the near future. What's in my queue so far: * svn r6282: nis ninit.d script can be removed (closes: #612481) * svn r6265: use new

Re: Schedule for FAI release 3.4.8

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de [Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 12:20:08PM +0100]: On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:13 +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: On 02/16/2011 05:47 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: * Michael Goetze mgoe...@mgoetze.net [Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 05:16:54PM +0100]: Possible candidate: * svn

Re: fai-cd svn Rev 6265 mkisofs - genisoimage

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, * Syd Alsobrook [Tue May 03, 2011 at 09:43:57AM -0400]: This change to fai-cd does generate a mostly working iso. However, the change uses a -r when a -R is actually needed. I chased this down because cfagent was throwing a permissions error in the live boot environment. According

Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, I just uploaded a new stable release of FAI, version 3.4.8 to Debian/unstable. The release is also available at http://people.debian.org/~mika/fai/release/ and will show up at http://fai-project.org/download/squeeze/ soon. The changelog is pretty long so I won't quote it in this mail. :)

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Prokop
* Holger Levsen [Tue May 10, 2011 at 07:37:31PM +0200]: On Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011, Michael Prokop wrote: I just uploaded a new stable release of FAI, version 3.4.8 to Debian/unstable. kudos! do you plan to also upload this to squeeze-backports or squeeze-updates? We'd¹ definitely love

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Tautschnig [Thu May 12, 2011 at 11:30:55AM +0100]: After reading just the changelog I doubt they let it in :-) (But do try!) But, two of the closed important bugs (from the bts) still seem worthwhile fixing in stable... (offline atm, so I cannot look up the numbers.) I've only

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien BLACHE [Tue Jun 14, 2011 at 09:16:31PM +0200]: Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Works for me(TM) just fine. Well, to be honest I found that fai-vol_id would sometimes fail on my test system, that will be fixed with the next commit to experimental. But no problems with

Announce: FAI subversion repository moved to Github

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, as discussed during the last months we considered migrating from subversion to git. At the last FAI workshop we decided to give it a shot and I volunteered to work on the svn-git migration. I'm happy to be able to announce that FAI is living on Github as of today: