>>>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:16:22 +0100, Andreas Heinlein <[email protected]>
>>>>> said:
> I have a question regarding "take-over" of clients not initially
> installed with FAI.
Not a good idea. You should do a clean new installation with FAI.
> Is it possible to purge any packages *not* listed in
> package_config during softupdate?
rm -rf ;-)
> I have read that one should not just
> remove a package from the list that was previously installed, but
> instead prepend it with a '-' sign. But what if you do not know exactly
> which packages were previously installed and want to just remove any
> installed but unlisted package?
I think it's not possible. See above. Start with a new installation of
the system.
--
regards Thomas