Thomas Lange wrote:
IMO this makes no sense.
Everything that fits a user's needs makes sense ;)
That some things have some disadvantages, is another point, and it's
right what you mentioned below, and it's good to point a user on these,
so they might think about if what they think they need is really what's
best for them :)
Still, if he has this requirement, it is as it is...
I hope that the next step is not that you like to generate the
package_config files from an existing installation. This will also not
fit into the FAI method of "plan our installation".
But this is only the way you can propose how FAI should be used - if
people want to use it in a different way, why not?
If there was a script that would generate a fai config from an installed
system, it would be great.
Even though it wouldn't have the advantages of FAI's class-system and
the flexibility and nice structure and so on, it still would be a tool
to easily backup a full system configuration, but with a much smaller
amount of data.
e.g., one could make an ftar file from /etc, generate the disk config,
and put all the packages in one package list.
It's not the structured and nice thing we use fai for and we think is
it's strength - but still be cool ;)
Henning
