Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

2023-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:21:30PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > Do you have a concrete reason for introducing Salt on top of FAI? I don't wanna speak for the original poster, but your question sounds a bit like "Do you have a concrete reason for introducing LibreOffice on top of this Unix system

Re: Launch of new FAI project web site

2023-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > I hope you all enjoy the new layout. yes, it looks nice and modern! :thumbsup: -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D

Re: FAI for ARM image building

2017-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:15:48PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 09:30 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Appearantly five years ago I also learned to use backups here, so > > this is what I > > use currently: > I have a hook that installs and confi

Re: FAI for ARM image building

2017-10-10 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Riku, btw, exciting to see that FAI is gaining cross-arch support! On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:09:24AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > - The rather manual steps of copying files/. Having to DYI template > expansion and explicitly fcopy every single file is really annoying. > Right now users are

Re: FAI 5.3

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:33:38PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those classes from > > -c, then those from -N? > This completely depends on the scripts in class/*.sh. We have now > a new script class/01-classes as an example. nice.

Re: FAI 5.3

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Thomas, On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:57:47PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > FAI 5.3 is now available. Here are some news: yay. nice stuff! > You can now use both -N and -c for fai and fai-diskimage, which was > forbidden before. also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those

Re: fai ohne initrd

2013-05-08 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Ingo, On Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, Ingo Wichmann wrote: Das UEFI des MacBooks kann nur ein binary laden, initrd oder cmdline-Parameter kennt es nicht. Mögliche Lösungen: bei anderen Architekturen ist es relativ üblich, kernel und initrd zu einem File zusammenzucat'en. Vielleicht ist das auch

Re: setup_storage: one disk_config for raid1 and degraded raid1

2011-12-19 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Montag, 19. Dezember 2011, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: Yes is possible no problem. Also faster for testing because no RAID sync. Simple config attached. that's not what I ment: I want one file for two cases: with 2 disks and raid1 and with 1 disk and raid1. So it should handle

Re: RAID Konfiguration FAI

2011-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Julian, ich würds mal _ohne_ extra /boot Partition probieren.. cheers, Holger

affects 639000 fai

2011-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
affects 639000 fai thanks

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011, Michael Prokop wrote: We'd¹ definitely love to see that in squeeze-{backports,updates} after some further public testing over the next few days. But the diff is pretty large and we're not sure whether the release team will accept this release therefore. I'll

Re: Schedule for FAI release 3.4.8

2011-02-18 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Stephan Adig wrote: ETCH/LENNY/SQUEEZE/UBUNTU_LUCID/UBUNTU_NATTY/UBUNTU_KARMIC etc.sounds more sane. the latter not too much. I'd suggest to make those two classes: DEBIAN ETCH LENNY SQUEEZE UBUNTU LUCID NATTY cheers,

Re: [Fai-commit] r6291 - in trunk/examples/simple: files/boot/grub/menu.lst scripts/CENTOS scripts/DEBIAN scripts/FAIBASE scripts/GRUB scripts/GRUB_PC scripts/LAST

2011-02-12 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 12. Februar 2011, Thomas Lange wrote: Author: lange Date: 2011-02-12 17:53:27 + (Sat, 12 Feb 2011) New Revision: 6291 Modified: trunk/examples/simple/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/postinst trunk/examples/simple/scripts/CENTOS/10-security

Re: should fai-client depend on fai-setup-storage?

2010-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 19. Juni 2010, Thomas Lange wrote: I'm wondering if fai-client should really depend on fai-setup-storage? Instead, I would prefer it recommends fai-setup-storage and maybe fai-nfsroot depends on fai-setup-storage. Does this make sense? yes. cheers, Holger

Re: Launch of new FAI project website

2009-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 7. Dezember 2009, Henning Glawe wrote: nice result :) indeed! regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: small documentation patch

2009-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Montag, 16. November 2009, Edgar Fuß wrote: -(an NFS mount by default) from the install server to '$FAI'. The setup +(a NFS mount by default) from the install server to '$FAI'. The setup I would prefer to haven a native speaker comment on this, yet I think an is correct. After all, NFS

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 4. September 2009, Per Foreby wrote: To me, softupdate is more important than install. The base installation can be achieved in other ways. to me too! regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#530545: please remove vserver-build.fai

2009-05-25 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
package: util-vserver version: 0.30.216~r2772-6 x-debbugs-cc: linux-fai-devel@uni-koeln.de Hi, your package includes /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.fai which only works with real ancient versions of fai. The wiki page referenced in the script (which is a howto) was last edited in April

Re: running out of arp-cache

2009-04-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Henning, On Dienstag, 21. April 2009, Henning Fehrmann wrote: Is there a generic way to add a proper /etc/sysctl.conf in the initrd or in the NFS-chroot, configured somewhere in the make-fai-nfsroot.conf? since fai 3.2.1 make-fai-nfsroot supports hooks. regards, Holger

Re: Probleme bei der Installation unter Ubuntu

2009-04-08 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, welche FAI version benutzt Du? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-23 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat: How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few.. By looking at dependency relations with the net-tools package. I guess some packages use net-tools if

Re: Bug#516385: fai-server: I'd prefer fai-mirror not lie to me about what it's doing.

2009-02-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 21. Februar 2009, Robin Lee Powell wrote: It's harder to debug things when the program lies to you about what it's doing. :) Patch follows. --- /tmp/fai-mirror 2009-02-19 16:31:06.0 -0800 +++ /usr/bin/fai-mirror 2009-02-20 18:33:50.0 -0800 @@ -185,7

Re: Bug#516385: fai-server: I'd prefer fai-mirror not lie to me about what it's doing.

2009-02-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
tags 516385 -patch thanks Hi, On Samstag, 21. Februar 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: No. I don't see the particular improvement, especially the first part of the patch seems really really strange, because the code in fact uses $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.nfsroot and not $cfdir/NFSROOT. What

fai: unblock request for stable-proposed-updates

2009-02-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, please unblock fai for stable-proposed-updates, it fixes an important bug which prevents perl scripts from working at all, plus two minor also easy to fix ones. The upload has been approved by the regular fai maintainer, Thomas and has been preapproved by Luk for the releaseteam, so I've

Re: Update doc, question to ssh_known_hosts

2009-02-20 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Nico, have you seen http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265973 and especially http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265973#35 ? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: stable-proposed-updates?

2009-02-20 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Yes, below patch looks fine. Ok, thanks. Added to svn/trunk and svn/branches/lenny as I pretty much assume Thomas is fine with that and if not I can easily revert ;-) fai 3.2.16-lenny1 upload still scheduled for sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Re: [OT] How to serve apt. http vs nfs

2009-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, I also only use apt via http, usually with squid as a proxy. I do this, due the ease of setup and because I can use http everywhere. Using nfs is faster though: with http, the .debs get first downloaded (and written) to /var/cache/apt/archives and then are unpacked, while if you use nfs

Re: [OT] How to serve apt. http vs nfs

2009-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Thomas, On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: No, not really. I did some performance tests in the past, and there were no real differences in the installation times. Sometimes http was slightly faster than NFS, but I think this was the cause of the NFS server. Interesting,

Re: Softupdates whith FAI 3.2.10 on Lenny

2008-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 16 October 2008 09:52, Thomas Lange wrote: again (can you test this please) I can readd it. It would be perfect if you could write a bug report for this. Yes, please do and please file it with severity important. Thanks, Holger pgpbf4MXby2ZM.pgp Description: PGP

Re: site down

2008-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 17 September 2008 14:58, Jean Spirat wrote: is it me or is the FAI site down ? the university of cologne is experiencing network problems today. regards, Holger pgp6bx6ZU1RHc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#497034: new to the list and fai

2008-08-29 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
package: fai-doc version: 3.2.9 x-debbugs-cc: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de On Friday 29 August 2008 10:39, Thomas Lange wrote: fai-chboot -v '2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7' '/dev/etherd/e10.1' demohost1 but then i got this error:fai-chboot: unknown host: /dev/etherd/e10.1 Oh, this is

Re: package_config - boolean operations possible?

2008-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Thomas, On Tuesday 15 July 2008 14:20, Thomas Neumann wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479537 with patches even. Incomplete patches. There's a missing curly brace. Thanks. Addings this to the bugreport :) foreach (@oclasses) { if (/^!/) {

Re: package_config - boolean operations possible?

2008-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 July 2008 19:29, Henning Sprang wrote: Is this possible? Or is there a better / different way? As far as I know, not. Sounds interesting, and I guess I even heard that request somewhere already. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479537 with patches even.

Re: gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be?merged

2008-06-13 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 13 June 2008 09:46, Henning Glawe wrote: give away urherberrecht (author's rights/intellectual property law/copyright in germany) is AFAIK not possible. licensing the work under GPL should be the way to go. urheberrecht != copyright. Under german law you cannot give away

Re: FAI 3.2.5, Etch, /initrd.img is a damaged link

2008-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
package: fai-doc version: 3.2.5 x-debbugs-cc: linux-fai linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Hi, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 18:53, Stefan Tichy wrote: make-fai-nfsroot -r -v produces some errors: Please do not use the -r flag. Try without this flag. I found that command in FAI Guide on page 11

Re: How to encrypt password

2008-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, a better solution can be found at http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Generate_random_root_password_during_installation,_encrypt_and_send_by_mail regards, Holger pgpCenXDE9i2s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAI and the installation progress - or: to those who care

2008-03-01 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi Cajus, On Tuesday 26 February 2008 10:06, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: once upon a time there was a fai-progress implementation that we did for the city of munich - just in order to hide the linux / FAI messages from the users, sitting right in front of their screens wondering what's going on.

Re: htdig problem in postinst

2007-09-24 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
package: htdig x-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, On Monday 24 September 2007 17:15, Tim Cutts wrote: That's probably worth filing as a bug in the htdig package. Its postinst script should probably be explicitly setting $verbose to a suitable value, or unsetting it, within the script. It

Re: Probleme beim Ausführen von make-fai-nfsroot

2007-09-24 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 24 September 2007 17:31, Steffen Bornemann wrote: oops ... natürlich an die Liste. :-) Also ich das Repository eingetragen, die Fehlermeldung ändert sich aber nicht. Hast du noch einen anderen Vorschlag? Hast Du make-fai-nfsroot -v nochmal neu ausgeführt? :) Gruß,

Re: FAI 3.2.1 released

2007-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 17 September 2007 15:03, Thomas Lange wrote: FAI 3.2.1 is tested with Debian 4.0 aka etch, and can be downloaded if you add following line to sources.list: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln And you need to put this line into /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: [Fai-commit] r4576 - trunk

2007-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
On Friday 14 September 2007 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: lange Date: 2007-09-14 10:19:36 + (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) New Revision: 4576 Added: trunk/icons/ Log: This is the end of command line FAI ;-) LOL congrats and cheers! regards, Holger pgpPOexI4bnO1.pgp

Re: Problem with script 'make-fai-nfsroot'

2007-08-28 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:06, Thomas Lange wrote: If I readd the dependency on libapt-pkg-perl into the debian/control file, will other distributions (suse, centOS,..) have problems? Add it as recommends, not as depends? rpms dont have recommends and suggests, but during installation

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:04, Per Foreby wrote: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? With softupdates you don't use a server - except one to hold the configuration files. regards, Holger pgpJ44sRxiyRz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SW_RAID in 3.x

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 18:57, martin f krafft wrote: 1. Just copy the configuration from 2.10 (minus the mkinitrd script), 2. download new versions from the wiki, or 3. avoid software raid? 4. Use the hook on the wiki to create the arrays, make sure to install mdadm, a Debian

Re: softupdate

2007-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 20 August 2007 15:02, Per Foreby wrote: Here is an update of the problem description: With my extra aptitude update in te softupdate hook, the output looks like this on consecutive softupdates: [...] W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.ddg.lth.se etch Release: The following signatures

Re: softupdate

2007-08-20 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 19 August 2007 17:41, Per Foreby wrote: Everytime, until I run aptitude update (manually, or in the softupdate hook as I described). Then aptitude update is not run and should be. IMO it would be good to have it in the simple examples. regards, Holger

Re: softupdate needs -N

2007-08-17 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:59, Henning Glawe wrote: I vote for renewing classes by default... Seconded. regards, Holger pgpO07FxY2U1O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BIOS

2007-08-17 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 09 August 2007 09:37, Henning Fehrmann wrote: we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM of the motherboard automatically. Are you aware that you can flash many bioses from linux now? Read

Re: [Fai-commit] r4502 - in trunk: conf debian

2007-08-17 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 13 August 2007 10:47, Thomas Lange wrote: Well, the new version of install_packages does not need libapt-pkg-perl all the time. Only when using on a Debian (or similar System) and only if you are using the PACKAGES install (which uses apt-get) command. As install was used for

Re: use Grub from nsfroot or install client - was: Re: grub problem

2007-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 03 August 2007 12:22, Henning Sprang wrote: I don't think this is so clear. In most cases, one can expect that in the install target enough tools are available to properly install grub on the bootsector. If it's not in the target, why should grub be used at all? Exactly. Also,

Re: excluding cfengine from install

2007-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:27, Henning Sprang wrote: To get your special cfengine version into the nfsroot, you need to: 1) build your specific version as a real debian package 2) put this version into your own apt repository 3) either take care that your deb always has a higher