Hi Sam, On Sunday 01 October 2006 22:31, you wrote: > Please note that this new feature does not interfere with your > approach of using the debootstrap build method and then running > softupdate.
Sure. I would just be happy to throw away my approach and use yours :-) > Perhaps we can suggest these two methods as alternatives > for building vservers in the documentation. I think this (under the title "setting up vservers") is more confusing and has no benifits. My approach is just a logical extension of softupdates, which should be covered anyway. Your approach should be the offical way to setup vservers. > Far from being a "regression", each approach has its advantages and > disadvantages; the approach of using the nfsroot (which, of course, > becomes a somewhat figurative term) makes the build a single logical > step, and ensures consistency if the intent is to prototype real host > builds using vservers. An nfsroot is just debootstrap plus some extra packages defined in fai.conf. So the consistency can be easily reproduced without relying on a actual existing nfsroot. I also fail to see why an nfsroot is needed for i386 builds on amd64. > As for the default paths being "obsolete", I am currently working on I hope you read my comment on #vserver about why I'm so upset if I see those pathes: I insisted three years to make FAI behave in a FHS compatible way and after this long time I really freak out, if I see /usr/local/share/fai - it makes my eyes bleed and my brain cry ;-) Nothing personal :) > making this usable for the current stable release of debian before I > move on to making it work with testing. I based it off FAI 2.10.1; > and plan to re-base it off the latest 2.x release. Please bear in > mind that I have been familiarizing myself with FAI along the way, and > that now we have a working system (and the projects we are using this > for - the .nz registry system and NZ Electoral Enrolment Centre > offices - are in deployment phase), we are in a position to spend time > to take our improvements and share them. Cool. > Perhaps in the meantime you > might have suggestions for detecting which version of FAI is > installed "dpkg -l fai" or "dpkg -l fai-client" if using the split packages (which are default since etch.) regards, Holger
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