On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:03:42 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <[email protected]> said: > > > Until the reason of the grub problem has been identified, I'd like > > to set the version for all 5 grub* packages to 1.99-27+deb7u2 > > explicitly (or, to cover the chance of the Wheezy package being > > updated again, to << 2.0) - is this possible within FAI? > You can do this with apt pinning, but don't aks me about the details. > It's also possible to say packagename/distribution (like > grub-pc/wheezy) in the package_config files.
I've just come across another quirk which needs unconventional handling: it's the hdf5 package set which comes without libhdf5-serial-dev. The accepted workaround is to install that package from a Squeeze repo, put it on hold, and install a tweaked (build -9.1) version of Wheezy's libhdf5-7 over it. I presume that the most adequate way to represent this in FAI would be a hook, right? When would this best happen, just after unpacking the base package? Would FAI obey the "hold" setting? Thanks, - S
