fai 2.6.1 on a woody server

2004-08-23 Thread Henning Sprang 
Hy,
I just wanted to start installing FAI 2.6.1 on a woody server on which i ran
2.5.x successfully, but failed.

I ran in troubles with the woody debootstrap packages missing scripts for
sarge, tried using debootstrap from sarge, but ended up in dependency
troubles.

I'm now just upgrading to sarge as it's a home machine, and all my home
machines are experimental somehow :), but would there have been another way
to get fai 2.6.1  running on a woody server (but surely putting sarge on the
install clients)?
Or am i overseeing some point that this idea makes perfectly no sense?

Henning

Re: taskinst package selection seems broken

2004-08-23 Thread Steffen Grunewald 
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:59:48PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:19:22 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 
> > Tried out FAI 2.6.1 last night and wanted to try selecting packages
> > via the tasksel tasks and found I could only do one "task" per FAI
> > install.  Doing multiples would fail because tasksel would be passed
> > each task on the same commandline and it doesn't seem to like that.
> 
> Maybe this is a whishlist bug for tasksel, or even a major bug? The
> old implementation of tasksel had this feature, so I could depend on it. 

Here Verision 2.09 of the tasksel package is running, with the same
problem:

tasksel problems:
install_packages: executing chroot /tmp/target tasksel -n install desktop 
kernel-compile python-dev science tex
Usage:
tasksel install 
tasksel remove 
tasksel [options]; where options is any combination of:
-t, --test  test mode; don't really do anything
-r, --required  install all required-priority packages
-i, --important install all important-priority packages
-s, --standard  install all standard-priority packages
-n, --no-ui don't show UI; use with -r or -i usually
--new-install   automatically install some tasks
--list-taskslist tasks that would be displayed and exit
--task-packages list available packages in a task
--task-desc returns the description of a task
ERROR: 256 256

Apparently, none of the selected tasks has been installed...
A (simple?) workaround would be to loop over all tasks to be installed.

Cheers,
 Steffen

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Re: taskinst package selection seems broken

2004-08-23 Thread Thomas Lange 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:19:22 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

> Tried out FAI 2.6.1 last night and wanted to try selecting packages
> via the tasksel tasks and found I could only do one "task" per FAI
> install.  Doing multiples would fail because tasksel would be passed
> each task on the same commandline and it doesn't seem to like that.

Maybe this is a whishlist bug for tasksel, or even a major bug? The
old implementation of tasksel had this feature, so I could depend on it. 

-- 
regards Thomas