* Thomas Lange <[email protected]> [Mon Mär 29, 2010 at 03:07:08 +0200]:
> People like to use setup-storage without calling it from FAI.
FullACK :)
> This is how it should work
> - install the fai-client package
> - export PATH=/usr/lib/fai:${PATH}
> - export disklist=$(disk-info | sort)
> - setup-storage -X -f yourconfigfile
JFTR: $LOGDIR needs to be set as well.
Example session with adjusted /usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Fstab.pm:
| mkdir /tmp/foo
| export LOGDIR=/tmp/foo
| export disklist=$(/usr/lib/fai/disk-info | sort )
|
| cat > template << EOF
| disk_config sda
| primary /boot 40 ext3 rw
| primary swap 40 swap sw
| EOF
|
| setup-storage -X -f template
/usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Fstab.pm has been manually adjusted
because it invokes fai-vol_id without full path and I don't have
/usr/lib/fai in my $PATH.
As discussed via IRC I'd strongly favor providing setup-storage as
separate Debian package, because:
* it improves the options to set the according dependencies in the
Debian package
* people who don't use FAI but need a tool like setup-storage might
consider using it (and as a consequence providing a larger user
base to setup-storage as well as possibly FAI)
I've started to work on the initial packaging against current svn
trunk of FAI:
http://grml.org/tmp/split-out-setup-storage.patch
I'm not really happy to manually have to adjust $PATH so
/usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Fstab.pm finds /usr/lib/fai/fai-vol_id.
Would it be an option to provide a simple wrapper which sets $PATH,
$disklist and $LOGDIR to sane defaults (if not set already) and
provides all the cmdline arguments to setup-storage 1:1? (I'd work
on that, so I just request for an [N]ACK ;))
Thomas and Michael Tautschnig, I'd especially appreciate your
feedback - what do you think about it?
regards,
-mika-
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