Hi, On Samstag, 18. Juli 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: > FAI_CONFIGDIR is only used on the install server. It's not used by an > install client. Maybe the comment is a little bit confusing. So this > variable should be moved to make-fai-nfsroot.conf to make things > clearer.
Yes, if its _only_ used on the server, the comment is confusing and the
variable should be moved. (But please dont break existing setups.)
> If you install a client using FAI, a new definition for
> FAI_CONFIG_SRC will be appended to /etc/fai/fai.conf during the
> installation (e.g. FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://kueppers/srv/fai/cslenny).
> So the install client can do softupdate (from the same config space
> as during first installation), because it knows were to fetch the
> config space.
The thing is, that there are circumstances where the softupdate is the first
fai run.
> If you like to use another source as config space, you have to edit
> FAI_CONFIG_SRC in /etc/fai/fai.conf on the install client.
It would be nice if that had a sensible/usable default, so that one could
install fai-client plus a my-fai-config-space package and run softupdate,
without having the my-fai-config-space package edit the config file of
fai-client...
regards,
holger
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