On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:55:54PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > it is necassairy, if you are (ab-)using softupdates for dist-upgrades. > > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready.
?! prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with apt; if an updated sources.list points to sarge while it pointed before at woody, you are able to pull your box from woody to sarge without reinstallation. > > But > > I agree the current implementation in FAI not ideal, but my proposed > > changes were not accepted into FAI ;( > > You proposed this hook or something else ? yup. but as a real replacement to the current task_prepareapt > > $FAI/hooks/prepareapt.DEFAULT > > please not as DEFAULT. Maybe in FAIBASE which I propose not to use in default > softupdates ;-) that's what _I_ use in the config for my machines here, which is quite different from the fai simple-example. -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
