On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:19:44PM +0200, Toomas Tamm wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:41:54PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > FAI_CONFIG_SRC in fai.conf is not copied into the nfsroot any > > more. Use fai-chboot -u instead. > > I would like to express my opinion against the shift of paradigm of > Unix administration, which has been growing in recent years, and now > also creeping into FAI. In the "old good days" configuration of a > Unix/Linux host was done by modifying files, usually under /etc . This > has the added benefit that such files can be easily reviewed, backed > up and later restored to a known working state, controlled with tools > such as Subversion/Git, cfengine, etc.
As a user of FAI (but mostly a luker here), I'd have to agree. I know how to edit text files just fine, but I'm always worred that some user friendly tool will wipe out some changes I made somewhere without me realizing it (or that it would) and then it'll be hours of debugging to figure out why. I've run into situations in the FAI docs where I just can't tell if running the tools will alter things that I'm configuring or changing in the FAI nfsroot or not. This leaves me in a situation where I run the tools once to set things up, and then never run them again and edit everything by hand. Thank you. -pete
