affects 639000 fai

2011-09-05 Thread Holger Levsen
affects 639000 fai thanks

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011, Michael Prokop wrote: > We'd¹ definitely love to see that in squeeze-{backports,updates} > after some further public testing over the next few days. But the > diff is pretty large and we're not sure whether the release team > will accept this release therefore. I'l

Re: Stable release 3.4.8 available

2011-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011, Michael Prokop wrote: > I just uploaded a new stable release of FAI, version 3.4.8 to > Debian/unstable. kudos! do you plan to also upload this to squeeze-backports or squeeze-updates? cheers, Holger

Re: Schedule for FAI release 3.4.8

2011-02-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Stephan Adig wrote: > Well, that means that we need something like class dependencies... that's a good idea anyway! ;-) see #353536 (and #479537) cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Schedule for FAI release 3.4.8

2011-02-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Stephan Adig wrote: > ETCH/LENNY/SQUEEZE/UBUNTU_LUCID/UBUNTU_NATTY/UBUNTU_KARMIC etc.sounds > more sane. the latter not too much. I'd suggest to make those two classes: DEBIAN ETCH LENNY SQUEEZE UBUNTU LUCID NATTY cheers,

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, very nice findings! It's probably easier to use eatmydata like this: eatmydata apt-get foo Or maybe its just me, who doesnt like to modify LD_PRELOAD. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [RFC] setup-storage: generate scripts for partition table (re)creation

2010-09-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 22. September 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > Lovely idea, I'd appreciate such a feature! Would be nice to have > > this script available outside of setup-storage as well so it could > > be used like sfdisk nowadays, though if setup-storage would support > > the feature as well thi

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010, Thomas Lange wrote: > There is no freeze yet which I ignore. And during the next two weeks I > will work a lot on FAI. There is a freeze being worked on which you dont care about. This is sad as this attitude delays the release of Debian stable. (It's right that t

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Thomas Lange wrote: > > I will not work because of fixed pathes in the packages. > > > > fai-nfsroot.install: etc/dhcp3/dhclient-fai-script > > fai-nfsroot.install: etc/dhcp3/dhclient-fai.conf > > ISTR there's a compat symlink that's been put

Re: should fai-client depend on fai-setup-storage?

2010-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 19. Juni 2010, Thomas Lange wrote: > I'm wondering if fai-client should really depend on fai-setup-storage? > Instead, I would prefer it recommends fai-setup-storage and maybe > fai-nfsroot depends on fai-setup-storage. Does this make sense? yes. cheers, Holger signat

Re: using fai-chboot with mac-address

2010-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 29. Mai 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be pretty > straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for ":" in the > hostname and handle this accordingly in the host2hex function of > fai-chboot. A colon can a

Re: small documentation patch

2009-11-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 16. November 2009, Edgar Fuß wrote: > > -(an NFS mount by default) from the install server to '$FAI'. The setup > > +(a NFS mount by default) from the install server to '$FAI'. The setup > > I would prefer to haven a native speaker comment on this, yet I think "an" > is correct. After al

Bug#530545: please remove vserver-build.fai

2009-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
package: util-vserver version: 0.30.216~r2772-6 x-debbugs-cc: linux-fai-devel@uni-koeln.de Hi, your package includes /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.fai which only works with real ancient versions of fai. The wiki page referenced in the script (which is a howto) was last edited in April 200

Re: Huge number of lintian messages

2009-05-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 1. Mai 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: > >> W: fai source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.0 (current is > >> 3.8.1) > > yeah... > ?? What does yeah mean? Did you check if the current version applies > to 3.8.1? No, "yeah" just ment this the usual work for upgrading to a n

Re: Huge number of lintian messages

2009-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 9. April 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > tautsch...@joey[21:22]:~/fai$ lintian -I --pedantic *.dsc *.deb > W: fai source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 4 uhm, yes, should be set to 5 (to ease backporting to etch) > W: fai source: out-of-date-standards-vers

Re: [Fai-commit] r5353 - trunk/debian

2009-04-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 17. April 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: > Modified: trunk/debian/changelog > + * compat,rules: update to compat level 7 not that I care much, but if you'd use compat=6 backporting to etch would be easier. (as in: wouldnt requiere to downgrade compat to 6 :) regards, Holger

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat: > > How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few.. > By looking at dependency relations with the net-tools package. I guess > some packages use net-tools if a

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > The wrappers are only meant to be included for user scripts for one more > release. I think you might be underestiming the universe of user scripts out there :-) (And if they work and are used, why remove them from squeeze+1?) regards,

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Note that we want to get rid of net-tools using packages. I'll look into > a patch that uses iproute instead if that's ok? Noted & cool. (And what Michael said.) Still atm fai is seriously buggy in that depends regard, so unless you have a p

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
--- debian/changelog (Revision 5292) +++ debian/changelog (Arbeitskopie) @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ initialization of encrypted partitions configurable * setup-storage.8: Document new encryption possibilities + [ Holger Levsen ] + * Add depends to net-tools to fai-serv

Re: fai: unblock request for stable-proposed-updates

2009-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luk, On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Ok, though your upload is still missing. Please make sure to have a > higher version in unstable, so you actually should do two uploads... will do, as soon as Thomas has ack'ed my proposal.. (will report back here then too as well as updat

fai: unblock request for stable-proposed-updates

2009-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, please unblock fai for stable-proposed-updates, it fixes an important bug which prevents perl scripts from working at all, plus two minor also easy to fix ones. The upload has been approved by the regular fai maintainer, Thomas and has been preapproved by Luk for the releaseteam, so I've a

Re: Bug#516385: fai-server: I'd prefer fai-mirror not lie to me about what it's doing.

2009-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
tags 516385 -patch thanks Hi, On Samstag, 21. Februar 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > No. I don't see the particular improvement, especially the first part of > the patch seems really really strange, because the code in fact uses > $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.nfsroot and not $cfdir/NFSROOT. What

Re: Bug#516385: fai-server: I'd prefer fai-mirror not lie to me about what it's doing.

2009-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 21. Februar 2009, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > It's harder to debug things when the program lies to you about what it's > doing. :) Patch follows. > > > --- /tmp/fai-mirror 2009-02-19 16:31:06.0 -0800 > +++ /usr/bin/fai-mirror 2009-02-20 18:33:50.0 -0800 > @@ -18

Re: stable-proposed-updates?

2009-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Yes, below patch looks fine. Ok, thanks. Added to svn/trunk and svn/branches/lenny as I pretty much assume Thomas is fine with that and if not I can easily revert ;-) fai 3.2.16-lenny1 upload still scheduled for sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Re: Update doc, question to ssh_known_hosts

2009-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Nico, have you seen http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265973 and especially http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265973#35 ? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: stable-proposed-updates?

2009-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > There is the recently filed #515101, which includes a missing patch for a > bug already meant to be fixed in 3.2.5; you definitely noticed that one > since you reopened it: Wouldn't be also nice to include a patch for that > one

Re: stable-proposed-updates?

2009-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > as there seem to be preparations for a bugfix release targeted at lenny: > should we get ourselves listed at > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1 ? If so, does > anybody know about the procedures? Sinc

Re: [Fai-commit] r5167 - in trunk: debian doc

2008-09-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 17 September 2008 15:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: lange > Date: 2008-09-17 13:38:08 + (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) > New Revision: 5167 > > Modified: >trunk/debian/changelog >trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml > Log: > fai-guide.sgml: remove info about make-fai-bootfloppy > > Mo

Re: [Fai-commit] r5127 - trunk/debian

2008-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 08 September 2008 11:53, Holger Levsen wrote: > I really suggest to keep "still needs one last upload right before the > release, to set testing to squeeze." in the changelog... Forget that, in the next commit Thomas already set lenny to stable so this change

Re: [Fai-commit] r5127 - trunk/debian

2008-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New Revision: 5127 > Modified: >trunk/debian/changelog > -- use lenny in FAISERVER class, still needs one last upload right before > - the release, to set testing to squeeze. (Not done yet, $BECAUSE.) > +- use l

Re: development with quilt

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 15:36, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Done. (r5066) > Thanks for the suggestion, Thanks for doing it :-) regards, Holger pgpxsbuc0MG1w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: development with quilt

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 28 August 2008 00:23, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I'd suggest the following procedure (happy flaming...): Thanks for writing this up (and implementing it in the first place :) Can you put it in a README file in your branch, please, so that it's easily availble?! :-) regards,

Re: development with quilt

2008-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:24, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > this patch would help to use the quilt patch management system for handling > additional patches in trunk. why would anybody use that? fai is a native package... regards, Holger pgp8SEb7fYbsa.pgp Description: PGP signatu

better and easier commitmessages

2008-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, if you write a debian/changelog entry for every change you do, you can use "debcommit" (part of the devscripts package) to very easily create useful commit messages. From the debcommmit manpage: debcommit generates a commit message based on new text in debian/changelog, and commits the cha

Re: gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be?merged

2008-06-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 13 June 2008 11:30, Henning Sprang wrote: > Is it somebody who sends a patch fixing a minor typo, or is it about > contributions of more than 10, or 20 lines? You will laugh, it's defined in the law: "substancial contributions". It's not defined by quantity, but quality. > What if

Re: gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be?merged

2008-06-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 13 June 2008 09:46, Henning Glawe wrote: > give away "urherberrecht" ("author's rights"/"intellectual property > law"/"copyright" in germany) is AFAIK not possible. licensing the work > under GPL should be the way to go. urheberrecht != copyright. Under german law you cannot give a

Re: [Fai-commit] r4964 - trunk/debian

2008-06-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, also on this list (and not only on IRC), because this is soo great: megacheers for including setup-storage in trunk! On Thursday 12 June 2008 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Modified: >trunk/debian/control > Log: > setup-storage needs liblinux-lvm-perl otherwise perl complains because

Re: gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be merged

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:44, Henning Sprang wrote: > Finding a general rule how and when people deserve being mentioned in > the copyright file to avoid complications in the future, is interesting > and important. Those rules exist. They are written down in copyright laws. > Before discu

Re: FAI Workshop August 2008

2008-06-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 02 June 2008 16:41, Henning Sprang wrote: > We planned the ext FAI developer workshop - hopefully just in time to > get some things fixed for Lenny. I sincerely hope this will be way too late, since Lenny shall be frozen mid July. See http://release.debian.org/emails/release-upda

Re: debconf8 bof: building debian from debian

2008-06-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, full-quote for the benefit of fai-devel... On Friday 30 May 2008 23:36, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > i was asked to find out if folks from various projects would be > interested in a proposed bof for debconf8. > > please let me know if you are interested and would be able to attend. > > Buildin

extremadura meeting, when?

2008-03-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, http://wiki.debian.org/FAI/Extremadura2008 is used to plan the next FAI developer meeting. So far no dates are mentioned on this page, but it says, discussion should be held on the list. So when will we have this meeting? :-) regards, Holger pgputKkZBzLZu.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: setup_harddisks patch

2008-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul, On Monday 18 February 2008 18:28, Paul Lussier wrote: > I'd like to submit a minor patch for FAI's setup_harddisks script. > > This patch allows you to create a partition of type 'da', which is > "Non-Filesystem Data". We use this partition type extensively and > have evidently been main

Re: Recursive fai-class

2008-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Raphaël, On Friday 15 February 2008 10:01, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > As I was looking at the list of FAI classes and dependencies we use for our > production, I found that the system was a bit flat and that adding a > recursive class declaration would make it more powerful. > > I'm attaching a pa

Re: setup_harddisks/mount2dir-mkdir-Unterstützung

2008-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Edgar, On Tuesday 29 January 2008 18:18, Edgar Fuß wrote: > Wir brauchten bei FAI die Möglichkeit, Verzeichnisse anzulegen, die später > von Mounts überdeckt werden, speziell var/run und var/lock auf dem root fs > (also NICHT nur run und lock auf dem fs, das auf /var gemounted wird). [...] > Pa

Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Thursday 29 November 2007 00:55, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > No, it's never too late, we're in an open world :-) Great! :) How about storage setup? or setup_storage, which would be similar to setup_harddisk but also indicate that it can do more than setup harddiscs :) regards,

storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 24 November 2007 19:28, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > But luckily, Storage Magic isn't far anymore... > I'll have a look at it. > The word magic is kind of 'warning'... I agree. I liked the old name, setup harddisks 2, better. It's more descriptive, less cryptic. But I guess its

Re: [Fai-commit] r4568 - trunk/conf

2007-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 16 September 2007 20:23, Holger Levsen wrote: > That same list is also in the fai-guide, which should be updated as well. patch now sent to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) regards, Holger pgpUNMJ5nBus7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fai-commit] r4582 - in trunk: . debian

2007-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 15 September 2007 19:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New Revision: 4582 > > Modified: >trunk/debian/control >trunk/debian/fai-server.dirs >trunk/debian/fai-server.install > Log: > new files and directories for faimond-gui, suggest perl-tk > > Modified: trunk/debian/cont

Re: [Fai-commit] r4576 - trunk

2007-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Friday 14 September 2007 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: lange > Date: 2007-09-14 10:19:36 + (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) > New Revision: 4576 > > Added: >trunk/icons/ > Log: > This is the end of command line FAI ;-) LOL & congrats and cheers! regards, Holger pgpPOexI4bnO1.p

Re: [Fai-commit] r4568 - trunk/conf

2007-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 13 September 2007 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New Revision: 4568 > > Modified: >trunk/conf/fai.conf > Modified: trunk/conf/fai.conf > === > -# supported URL-types: nfs, file, cvs, cvs+ssh, svn+file, svn+http,

Re: New features, and bugfix for faimond

2007-08-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 August 2007 11:52, Thomas Lange wrote: > > * Add a timeout, so that "bad clients" that are locking up the > > faimond will be disconnected after a given timeout. I see this > > as a bugfix since bad clients may lock up the faimond > > indefinitely. > Did you

Re: Problem with script 'make-fai-nfsroot'

2007-08-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:06, Thomas Lange wrote: > If I readd the dependency on libapt-pkg-perl into the debian/control > file, will other distributions (suse, centOS,..) have problems? Add it as recommends, not as depends? rpms dont have recommends and suggests, but during installation

Re: RFC: Moving /tmp/target to /target

2007-08-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 13 August 2007 10:44, Stephan Hermann wrote: > Could it be made a configuration item in fai.conf? Especially for a transition period this sounds like a good idea to me. regards, Holger pgp5rNuRz3AzS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fai-commit] r4502 - in trunk: conf debian

2007-08-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 13 August 2007 10:47, Thomas Lange wrote: > Well, the new version of install_packages does not need > libapt-pkg-perl all the time. Only when using on a Debian (or similar > System) and only if you are using the PACKAGES install (which uses > apt-get) command. As "install" was used

Re: please remove fai-kernels

2007-06-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 29 June 2007 13:23, you wrote: > What about filing a bug of the highest priority against the package? because that's not the correct procedure!?! :) Correct is to file a bug against ftp.debian.org as I have done. See developers-reference. regards, Holger pgpwqFgkgpneL.p

please remove fai-kernels

2007-06-29 Thread Holger Levsen
package: ftp.debian.org Hi, this time for real: please remove fai-kernels from unstable! Thanks & yay, Holger pgpUGpSUwjyiI.pgp Description: PGP signature

please remove fai-kernels

2007-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: ftp.debian.org Hi, this time for real: please remove fai-kernels from unstable! Thanks & yay, Holger pgpFoG1Z6qxeA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The future of fai-cd

2007-05-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 14 May 2007 13:09, you wrote: > It's basically: create a minimal livecd with fai installed, run fai-mirror > and copy the results in the livecd, copy a faiconfigdir on the livecd. Then > fai is run on boot, partititions the harddrive (via a fai hook) and does a > fai-softupdate. (IIR

Re: The future of fai-cd

2007-05-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 14 May 2007 12:43, you wrote: > Is there some nice howto or further information on that way of building the > CDs? Not yet. It's basically: create a minimal livecd with fai installed, run fai-mirror and copy the results in the livecd, copy a faiconfigdir on the livecd. Then fai

Re: The future of fai-cd

2007-05-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (replying to -devel to keep the thread on one place) On Monday 14 May 2007 11:33, Thomas Lange wrote: > Holger's version which is still using live-package AFAIK (which was > replaced by live-helper) actually live-helper (and not live-package) is already installed on the build host, but the

Re: The future of fai-cd

2007-05-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 14 May 2007 10:58, you wrote: > I'm just wondering what the future of fai-cd will be? Is Holger's version, > i.e., is live-cd the future? Or is there any ongoing effort to move away > from mkinitrd-cd? Obviously I think so :) The tool is called live-helper btw and I have seen your