Re: fai-mirror bugs: conflicting packages and relative directories

[Thomas Lange]

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:54:17 -0400 (EDT), Paul Nijjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> said:

>   0. I have two package lists with conflicting packages. In
> package_config/EMACS I have:

> PACKAGES install
> emacs

> and in package_config/EMACS-NOX I have:
> PACKAGES install
> emacs-nox

>   Now if I type

> fai-mirror -v -cEMACS,EMACS-NOX /tmp/mirror

>   the script fails when calculating the dependencies:
I know this will not work, but I'm think I know how to fix
it. install_packages has to proceed that package list class by class
and not collect all packages from all classes before downloading the
packages. 

It would be nice if you could file a bug against fai.
-- 
regards Thomas

Re: fai-mirror

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

fai_2.8 suggests (between others) the packages mkinitrd-cd. 

In 2.8 some packages have been moved to Suggests:|Recommends: so that the fai 
package can be installed _everywhere_ (for softupdates) without to many 
packages pulled in by dependencies. This will will be fixed by a split of the 
fai package (into fai-server, fai-doc, $whatever) after sarge is released.

Oh, btw, mkinitrd-cd is only available for i386. FAI should use something 
else :-)


regards,
 Holger

Re: fai-mirror is missing a dependency

[Thomas Lange]

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:19:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) 
> said:

> Could "fai-mirror" get it's own package?
> (or should I file a wishlist BR)

One plan for FAI 3 is to split the fai package into several
packages (like doc, server, client, tools). But this is a long term
plan.

-- 
regards Thomas

Re: fai-mirror is missing a dependency

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:31:38 +0200, Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > said:
> 
> > Hi !
> > I just tried fai 2.7 and issued the "fai-mirror" command. It did not 
> work 
> > out-of-the-box, because the fai deb doesn't include "libapt-pkg-perl" 
> as 
> > a dependency.
> Your're right. This will be fixed in the next release.

Could "fai-mirror" get it's own package?
(or should I file a wishlist BR)


> regards Thomas

Cheers
Geert Stappers

Re: fai-mirror has problems with variables

[Thomas Lange]

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:12 +0200, Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> said:

> # export kernelversion=2.6.10
> # export kernelsubversion=1-686
> Adding packages from variable $addpackages: 

> kernel-image-${kernelversion}-${kernelsubversion}E: Regex compilation 
> error - Invalid preceding regular expression
You should not use variables names in the name of a package, even this
is possible in install_packages. Also the old examples using
kernel-source-`echo $kernelversion` should not be used any more.

But maybe it's possible to change the subroutine get_addpackages() in
fai-mirror to support the variable names in $addpackages. Patches are
always welcome ;-)
-- 
regards Thomas

Re: fai-mirror is missing a dependency

[Thomas Lange]

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:31:38 +0200, Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> said:

> Hi !
> I just tried fai 2.7 and issued the "fai-mirror" command. It did not work 
> out-of-the-box, because the fai deb doesn't include "libapt-pkg-perl" as 
> a dependency.
Your're right. This will be fixed in the next release.

-- 
regards Thomas