> Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:43:22 +0200 > From: Per Foreby <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status? > To: linux-fai <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Softupdate would do for me. You can always install the base in some > other way (Debian FAI server, clonezilla, g4l, ...) and then use > softupdate to get things exactly the way you want them. > /Per Hi Per, I'm going offtopic here, but if nothing else works and you *need* softupdate functionality, you could always revert to some config management tool. I know, this may be administrative overhead, but I'm using cfengine3 [1] successfully to manage the whole network and its nodes. And if you restrict yourself to software installation/removal/updates, it isn't too much work. Drawback is that you have another service running on the server and the clients, another software to worry about, and another technology to learn. In my case, however, it saves me hours and hours of administrative tasks and potential server downtime since you can make the whole thing self-healing. Here, FAI does the initial installation of the nodes, whereas cfengine is responsible for further customization. Cheers, Robert PS: sorry for the mangled post! [1] http://www.cfengine.org
