Re: debootstrapping multidistributions

[Fredrik Eriksson]

mamadou diop wrote:
Because of the sources.list file which only points to a Debian release 
at a given time, it seems to me
that it is impossible to install simultaneously Debian clients with 
differents releases. Is my opinion true?
We actually have this in our current testing environment.
What you typically want is to have two files in your fai/config/ tree, a 
sources.list file and a hook script (at least this is how we solve it). 
The sources.list file should be named after a class, where you for 
example define what distribution to run, and be put in 
fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/, i.e 
fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/LENNY_AMD64.
As for the hook script ours is called 
fai/config/hooks/updatebase.DEFAULT and is a small shell script to say 
the least:

#! /bin/bash

fcopy -Bi /etc/apt/sources.list

What it does is that it takes the file based on your defined class, for 
example fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list/SQUEEZE_X86, and copy it 
to /etc/apt/sources.list on your target system. Thus you can have 
multiple sources.list files aimed at different releases (and 
distributions or architectures if needed).

I hope this answers your question.


Regards
--
Fredrik
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