Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:14:58 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What is the timeline for FAI 3, and is there some type of roadmap or > feature list for it available? I looked around on the wiki, but > didn't see anything there. FAI 3.0 will be release this week, if

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:34:26 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > > Maybe the new action in FAI 3 "dirinst" will help you most of > all. There you can execute all parts of FAI (except for partitioning) > and see what FAI is doing.

cvs vs. svn [ was Re: Testing changes in FAI ]

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Jens Dreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:47:09AM +0200, Patrick Cornelißen wrote: >> >> I'd recommend to switch to subversion. It's much better for stuff like >> this. (There is also a conversion utility, which preserves the whole >> history) > > We tested subversion a

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:34:26 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > > > Is there currently a way to answering the question "What would FAI > > do?" for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host? > Maybe the new act

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > I had the same idea as Michael who suggest a new action like test. IMO > > this would be the best way to implement such a functionality. > > For us it would be much more important to simulate softupdates than > installs. So one ne

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:34:26 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there currently a way to answering the question "What would FAI > do?" for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host? Maybe the new action in FAI 3 "dirinst" will help you most of all. There yo

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Jens Dreger
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > I had the same idea as Michael who suggest a new action like test. IMO > this would be the best way to implement such a functionality. For us it would be much more important to simulate softupdates than installs. So one new action won

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Jens Dreger
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:47:09AM +0200, Patrick Cornelißen wrote: > Jens Dreger schrieb: > > > We have a fairly large CVS based FAI installation based on a modified > > 2.8.4.9 fai version. I'm in the process of converting that to 2.10.x > > on ubuntu right now. Most annoying change is that 2.10

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:34:26 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there currently a way to answering the question "What would FAI > do?" for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host? Short answer: No and Yes. Long version: Not completely. You scripts in cla

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Patrick Cornelißen
Jens Dreger schrieb: > We have a fairly large CVS based FAI installation based on a modified > 2.8.4.9 fai version. I'm in the process of converting that to 2.10.x > on ubuntu right now. Most annoying change is that 2.10.x will not run > scripts named S[0-9][0-9]*, so you have to rename the script

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Jens Dreger
Hi Paul! On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:34:26PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > I've inherited a legacy FAI configuration. Currently it's running FAI > 2.8.4. We're thinking of upgrading to 2.10.x at some point, but > before that we need to completely understand everything that FAI is > currently doing

Re: Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-20 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Is there currently a way to answering the question "What would FAI > do?" for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host? > Not that I would know of. However, many of us here would like to see that in FAI :-))) > I'm thinking of some kind of script which would recurse through

Testing changes in FAI

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi folks, I've inherited a legacy FAI configuration. Currently it's running FAI 2.8.4. We're thinking of upgrading to 2.10.x at some point, but before that we need to completely understand everything that FAI is currently doing for us. Our entire configuration is currently under revision contr