Henning Sprang wrote: > Per Foreby wrote: >> Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of >> switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad news. > > Good to have some more people tell this! > > When this decision was made, I heavily disagreed, but no one believed me > that people are using FAI like this (even though other reports in > launcpad confirm this type of usage)
To me, softupdate is more important than install. The base installation can be achieved in other ways. > Still, it would be simpler if fai-client could be installed without > special apt settings. I not sure that i follow, do you mean that the problem only has to do with the installation of fai-client? In that case, it would be easy to download the source and build a .deb or .rpm without dependencies. /Per
