On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:40:17PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:20 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > answering to stupid me ... > > Don't be so hard with yourself!
I am. I have to be. Made a lot of stupid mistakes all week. Coffee does not help much. Need more sleep :-( > > I suggest FAI to be distributed not only as complete packages but also as > > a patch set ... would make it easier to find such small changes for > > local personalization. > > It would be a good idea in general, to better separate between things > "included" in FAI not meant to be changed by users and things meant to > be changed by users. Thanks for seconding me :-) BTW, it's very confusing that the fai/download/ area is kept so clean - it's almost impossible to find the previous version, let alone diffs. (There is one from 2.8 to 2.8.2...) > Now we often have the situation, when installing a > new FAI version, that it's very useful (or even needed?) to merge > changes in the FAI example configs into your own, customized FAI config > space in /usr/local/share/fai, which can, in case you really edit the > example config's scripts and things like that, be a nice little hell. That's what I'm going through. I have my local modifications to the /etc/fai/* files, some patches to the disk partitioner (to keep the contents of xfs filesystems if there are any while still allowing to format a fresh replacement disk - the -f option to mkfs.xfs makes things a bit hard for me) (for Alpha, I'm a bit out of sync now, but still working on it - anyone else still interested in AlFAI?) - and it's quite a mess to patch the patch files with almost every new release (install package, overwrite files, read them, check with the patches, run patch --dry-run, patch the patch, dry-run again...) Of course (?) I could dpkg -x every new release into a tree, then run a recursive diff - and still might miss some pre/post-install scripts affecting my setup :-( Hmmm. If I only could clone myself. Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) SciencePark Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam * http://www.aei.mpg.de * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
