Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror
[...] To really fix it please file a bug with the Debian BTS to get this issue solved as soon as possible, it probably doesn't even take too much effort. For this bug I would report that fai-mirror fails when detecting two archs in a mirror? That seems like one bug (i.e. better error message). I also think I'm going to read into this a little more (when i have time) to see if I can figure out why fai-mirror is populating /srv/fai/mirror with more than one arch or would that type of investigation be generally discouraged? (I'm a bit new to open source and contributing to projects, but would like to help more if i could) Such an investigation is never discouraged, at least not within Debian, rather the converse is true: Whenever you find some bug or way to improve the software, this will be highly appreciated. It would be cool if you could file a bug report, such that this issue gets documented (publically), feel free to add the information that you are already investigating this issue. Thanks for your efforts, Michael pgpoJ0xxW4Ml7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror
[...] /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages I use this machine to do fai installations for both 32bit and 64bit machines. Originally I set things up on original machines and copied them over. I was hoping to make things work on a single machine without having to set things up on two different machines. For a workaround i'll continue to do things on separate machines (a 32bit and a 64bit) and copy the results over to my server unless anyone has a better suggestion? Hmm, for the fix: It probably suffices to choose different mirror directories rather than different machines, but that's up to you. To really fix it please file a bug with the Debian BTS to get this issue solved as soon as possible, it probably doesn't even take too much effort. Best, Michael pgpR2NpVvjgcS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [snip] Hmm, for the fix: It probably suffices to choose different mirror directories rather than different machines, but that's up to you. Well, its funny you mention that. I do have two different mirror directories. I have a /srv/fai/mirror and a /srv/fai/mirror64. I'm honestly not sure how /srv/fai/mirror ended up containing both arches in it. Before when i had done things, I had noticed that various fai scripts would detect my architecture and download accordingly. For example, I can't make an nfsroot for a 32bit machine on the 64 bit machine, at least I don't know how. What I had tried this time was to fake it out using debian's linux32 package and running the command: #linux32 fai-mirror /srv/fai/mirror Where /srv/fai/mirror is a completely empty directory (i run an rm -rf /srv/fai/mirror/* before hand). Granted my package_config/DEFAULT contains packages for both i386 and amd64, I assumed (or hoped) that it would detect the architecture and build the appropriate mirror. It appears to have attempted to build mirrors for both archs and then failed right at the end, but I haven't read into the script enough to really understand what's going on, which would be my next step. To really fix it please file a bug with the Debian BTS to get this issue solved as soon as possible, it probably doesn't even take too much effort. For this bug I would report that fai-mirror fails when detecting two archs in a mirror? That seems like one bug (i.e. better error message). I also think I'm going to read into this a little more (when i have time) to see if I can figure out why fai-mirror is populating /srv/fai/mirror with more than one arch or would that type of investigation be generally discouraged? (I'm a bit new to open source and contributing to projects, but would like to help more if i could) Thanks for your help, Carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software
Strange error w/ fai-mirror
I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the script produces an error... [apt doing stuff.] Calling apt-move /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# Is this something I've done wrong or a problem with the script? -carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software
Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror
I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the script produces an error... [apt doing stuff.] Calling apt-move /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# Is this something I've done wrong or a problem with the script? Definitely a problem of the script as it should deal with such situations properly, but in essence it means that pfile=$(find $mirrordir/dists -name Packages) returns more than one match (or none?) Could you try this find command manually after the script has failed? $mirrordir is the directory you are using for creating a mirror. Thanks, Michael pgpJZMrDcVK8T.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror
Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the script produces an error... [apt doing stuff.] Calling apt-move /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# Is this something I've done wrong or a problem with the script? Definitely a problem of the script as it should deal with such situations properly, but in essence it means that pfile=$(find $mirrordir/dists -name Packages) returns more than one match (or none?) Could you try this find command manually after the script has failed? $mirrordir is the directory you are using for creating a mirror. Thanks, Michael Sure enough, it was finding two dists. /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages I use this machine to do fai installations for both 32bit and 64bit machines. Originally I set things up on original machines and copied them over. I was hoping to make things work on a single machine without having to set things up on two different machines. For a workaround i'll continue to do things on separate machines (a 32bit and a 64bit) and copy the results over to my server unless anyone has a better suggestion? Thanks, Carl p.s. Thanks to everyone that works on fai, its incredibly useful. -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software
Conflicting MTA Packages and fai-mirror
Hello, I want to use two different MTA (Postfix and Exim) for severeal FAI classes. If I use fai-mirror to build the mirror, it fails with a conflict, that Postfix is not installable. If I exclude the classes, so there is only one MTA providing, it runs fine. Maybe apt fails because of two concurrent MTA packages...? bye, rene -- · http://rene.ahrcas.net · Rene Caspari · GPG-KeyID: 0xCA40A793 ·
Re: Conflicting MTA Packages and fai-mirror
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:04:05 +0200, Rene Caspari [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to use two different MTA (Postfix and Exim) for severeal FAI classes. If I use fai-mirror to build the mirror, it fails with a conflict, that Postfix is not installable. Maybe apt fails because of two concurrent MTA packages...? Yes, this is a feature of apt. Even if you use -d (for download-only) it complains if there are conflicts. Maybe apt should get a new option --ignore-conflicts. But here's the workaround. install_packages -m MAX or setting the variable MAXPACKAGES to 1 will install^wdownload only one package at a time, so there should be not conflicts. -- regards Thomas
Fwd: fai-mirror and conflicting packages
posted with wrong from address, sorry: -- Forwarded message -- From: Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 6, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: Re: fai-mirror and conflicting packages To: Larry Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de On 6/2/06, Larry Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've already attempted to place all of the packages in files/, but they take up 10MB, causing FAI to error-out early in the installation. I agree that fai-mirror should be able to get conflicting packages into the same mirror, also (which is probably not possible with the way it currently works) Bu why and since when does FAI have a 10MB limit for the files directory? I used to have quite large files in there, I did get rid of it because it's just not good to have such things. But if somebody wants to, he should be able to stick GB's into files at will. Henning -- Henning Sprang - http://www.sprang.de - http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: fai-mirror and conflicting packages
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:00:36 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I agree that fai-mirror should be able to get conflicting packages into the same mirror, also (which is probably not possible with the way it currently works) Maybe setting MAXPACKAGES=1 will also help. Then, every single package will be installed^Wdownloaded by a single apt-get call. -- regards Thomas
fai-mirror and conflicting packages
Is there a way to use fai-mirror to create a mirror with conflicting package types? The kernel packages that I've mentioned here before all conflict with each other (they need to for various reasons), but I'd like to be able to select one of the set for installation automatically, however, fai-mirror attempts to download all packages simultaneously, and it seems that apt-get will simply refuse to concurrently download conflicting packages. Any ideas? I've already attempted to place all of the packages in files/, but they take up 10MB, causing FAI to error-out early in the installation. Thanks --
Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror
On 1/12/06, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Henning, which version of FAI did you try? Was it 2.8.4 or 2.9? If it was 2.8.4 and the above would indeed fix it for you, then it is at least fixed in 2.9.1 (most probably 2.9 should work as well in that case). Nope. As I wrote, I know about the FAI 2.8.4 troubles with fai-cd, so I used 2.9, where I know the fai-cd problems are fixed - I tested that, 2.9 creates usable cd's without trouble. The problems I describe happen already at fai-mirror time, not install time. I'll further investigate that when I find time - I just had the hope that someone has an idea. Henning
Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror
Hi, I just use Fai-cd and I had the same problem. I resolved it by putting some a line in the script /usr/sbin/fai-cd. In the old script, there was : deb file:/file/mirror stable main I replace it by deb file:/file/mirror stable main deb file:/file/mirror sarge main I think the problem came for the section of the kernel, it was sarge and now it is stable, so you need the two sections (sarge et stable) in order to have all the packages. Phil Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez la version beta.
Re: Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror
Hi, I just use Fai-cd and I had the same problem. I resolved it by putting some a line in the script /usr/sbin/fai-cd. In the old script, there was : deb file:/file/mirror stable main I replace it by deb file:/file/mirror stable main deb file:/file/mirror sarge main [...] Henning, which version of FAI did you try? Was it 2.8.4 or 2.9? If it was 2.8.4 and the above would indeed fix it for you, then it is at least fixed in 2.9.1 (most probably 2.9 should work as well in that case). Regards, Michael signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: fai-mirror bugs: conflicting packages and relative directories
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
fai-mirror
From fai_2.8, . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# fai-mirror mkinitrd-cd not found. Please install package. . whereis mkinitrd-cd ?
Re: fai-mirror
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
fai-mirror is missing a dependency
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.
Re: fai-mirror is missing a dependency
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
Re: fai-mirror is missing a dependency
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 is missing a dependency
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
