Bug#1069967: fai-client: install_packages E: Unable to locate package ...

[Thomas Lange]

Hi Markus,

we had function this in the past. The subroutine mkpackagelist() in
install_packages did this. It was removed, because it could not deal
with variables in package names. So I need to reimplement it.

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viele Grüße Thomas

Bug#1069967: fai-client: install_packages E: Unable to locate package ...

[Markus Rexhepi-Lindberg]

Package: fai-client
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

When a non-existing package is in the list of packages passed to
install_packages apt-get responds with the following error message.

E: Unable to locate package ...

This in turn fails the installation of all the packages in the list.

I know this is the default behavior of apt-get but I would like to
request an option for install_packages to ignore non-existing packages
and retry the installation again with the same list but without the
non-existing package(s).

If such an option won't be implemented then an option to isolate a list
of packages to be installed could also work. Then a user could define a
list of packages that they would be ok with not being installed due to
reasons such as them being non-existing.

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Markus