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has caused the Debian Bug report #508566,
regarding fai softupdates: list manually installed packages per default,
provide option to remove them
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package: fai-client
severity: wishlist
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Hi,
On Friday 12 December 2008 14:22, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> > I have a question regarding "take-over" of clients not initially
> > installed with FAI. Is it possible to purge any packages *not* listed in
> > package_config during softupdate?
>
> No.
>
> This would involve a quite complex algorithm, because you have track
> down also all dependencies of explicitly listed packages, and their
> dependencies an so on.
Ain't it quite easy: fai generates a list of packages which should be
installed. There is a list of packages installed on the system already,
dpkg -l. Diff.
I think that would be a quite nice feature to have, also for the quite common
case where the user is root on the machine and installs packages manually
over time. (So the default should be to just list those packages, and then
there could be an optional switch to softupdate, to also remove them.)
I think I will turn this into a wishlist bug, since the theoretical
(superiour) approach, that one should never do manual changes and always plan
everything, sadly doesn't always match with reality.
regards,
Holger
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This bug can be closed, since install_packages can list the packages
(option -l) and also writes this list to $FAI_ROOT/tmp/packages.list.
If you like to implement such a feature, you should write a hook, all
needed information are available.
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regards Thomas
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