Re: Wiki Variables list

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:55:16 -0400, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Variables > In addition to the 'example value' column, I'd also like to see a > 'possible/default values' columne where, if there are standard values

Moving from majordomo to mailman software for this mailing list

2007-07-10 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi, during the next days, this mailing list will be moving from the old majodomo software to mailman. Please do not post here for the next few days. You will get a mail if the movement is finished. The new mail archive will then be available at https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/linux

Moving mailing list software to mailman

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, you all got an email about the conversion of the mailing list linux-fai and linux-fai-devel to the software mailman. Unfortunately this mail was generated in german. Therefore I repeat this greeting mail here in english. Please replace linux-fai also with linux-fai-devel (without doing rec

FAI developers meeting in spain

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi, the spanish region of Extremadura will sponsor again Debian Work Meetings in the same way they did last year. We are planing to do a FAI meeting there. Therefore we create a wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/FAI/Extremadura2007 If you are interested in helping the FAI project and work wi

Re: FAI developers meeting in spain

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:27:22 +0200, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > when and where exactly, prices etc. would be cool :) When? Will be determined later. Where: Extremadura. Read http://wiki.debian.org/WorkSessionsExtremadura Price: 0 Euro. Extremadura will pay everyth

Re: [Fwd: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:08:12 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hi FAI Team, > Shouldn't we also have such a page? No. > In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a > good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants

Re: [Fwd: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:40:49 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianKernel > I think I'll add us there, maybe only with a link to the wiki, not even > an extra page like some teams have, and some not. OK, looks fine to me. Wou

release timetable

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I like to tell you about my next release plans. FAI 3.2 should be released soon, I hope before august 21. Until then I like to add USB stick support into fai-cd. Also the FAI guide must be updated. What else? If you have any ideas, please mail to this list or file a wishlist bug. If you

Re: release timetable

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:49:52 +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > I would like to test the USB function of fai. Do you release a Beta of > the FAI CD? I will release a beta of FAI which will contain the new fai-cd script. The fai-cd script will have USB supp

RFC: Moving /tmp/target to /target

2007-08-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I need your opinions about changing the directory /tmp/target to /target. d-i is using /target. FAI ist using /tmp/target, because in the past we could not make /target writeable for the clients, which is needed when mounting the file systems from every partition to a target destination. S

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

2007-08-13 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:34:15 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Modified: >> trunk/conf/NFSROOT >> trunk/debian/control >> Log: >> move packages cfengine2 and libapt-pkg-perl from control to NFSROOT > Well, libapt-pkg-perl _is_ a dependency of t

Re: New features, and bugfix for faimond

2007-08-24 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:34:51 +0200, Jonas Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Two of these patches makes FAI behave different, and have > different dependecies, why I'm hesitating to submit them to the > debian bug tracker, risking that they will spawn a discussion >

Re: New features, and bugfix for faimond

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:34:51 +0200, Jonas Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > faimond, bad clients-patch: > * 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 clie

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

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:25:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > Thomas, I strongly suggest either reverting the patch of dropping the dependency > on libapt-pkg-perl or properly working around the missing library. I think, > there is also no note on th

URGENT! HELP needed for apt-ftparchive !

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange
Help! After spending several hours on creating new Release files for the FAI repository (deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln), I give up. I don't get things working and I need some urgent help. I'm not sure if using "apt-ftparchive generate " will make things easier. So

Re: New features, and bugfix for faimond

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:02:36 +0200, Jonas Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > This signal is just used to abort the read(). Since the die make > script fall through the read, the client is disconnected and the > daemon keeps on running. Since I do not want to use the daem

Re: New features, and bugfix for faimond

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:53:35 +0200, Jonas Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I'm unable to trigger this while running "faimond -d -l -", at > least with the latest set of patches I submitted. All that seems > to happen is that the client gets disconnected. OK, I'm wonder

Re: Release file, fai repository

2007-09-01 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:38:30 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Thomas Lange wrote: >> the problem with the FAI package repository seems to be fixed. > Thanks, I just verified that it

Re: [Fai-commit] r4552 - in trunk: bin man

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:26:23 +0200, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I've no idea about the specifics of Ubuntu, but can't we just detect, whether > the system we are running on is Ubuntu? (something similar to > /etc/debian_version maybe) We discussed that y

Re: [Fai-commit] r4552 - in trunk: bin man

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:30:26 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The nfsroot on etch is large anyway(last time I looked at it was over > 500MB, right?!), additional 20MB(just a guess) are not really doing much No, it's only 330MB. I will not add another 20MB or s

New repository for beta packages

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Lange
://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fai-commit -- regards Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303

New handling of LOGDIR

2007-11-16 Thread Thomas Lange
This is a short proposal or documentation how to handle the usage and setting of LOGDIR. Goals --- - remove usage of /var/log/fai/current during softupdate - do not call rm -rf $LOGDIR - Always log to /var/log/fai/$HOSTNAME/$FAI_ACTION-date_time (using $fai_rundate) We distinguish between

Re: make-fai-nfsroot should check for live-initramfs at the begining

2007-11-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:54:49 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > As said: > make-fai-nfsroot should check for live-initramfs at the begining, > instead of telling me after some minutes of waiting at the very end: > "ERROR - live-initramfs is not installe

Re: make-fai-nfsroot should check for live-initramfs at the begining

2007-11-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:20:30 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hmm, with the newest fai 3.2beta10, this even doesn't change when > live-initramfs is installed - output at the end of "make-fai-nfsroot -v" is: > ERROR: live-initramfs is not installed. >

Re: error in fai-cd 3.2.4 ?

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:02:08 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > dirname: missing operand > Try `dirname --help' for more information. > Writing FAI CD-ROM image to fai-cd-3.2.4_henning_2007-12-03.iso. This > may need some time. > re-directing all mes

FAI booth at LinuxTag 2008

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Lange
The FAI project will be present at the LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. If anybody likes to help at the booth please send me an email. -- regards Thomas

removing binary blobs from svn

2008-05-19 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi guys, I plan to remove following big binary blobs from the FAI svn repository this week: people/faiguy/configspaces/SUSE/basefiles/OPENSUSE103_32BIT.tar.gz people/oz/roll-out-cd/live-include-dir/live-include.tgz people/oz/roll-out-cd/live-include-dir/var/lib/roll-out/live-include.tgz people/oz

svn cleanup

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Lange
I've done the cleanup on the svn repository. Please check if everything works fine. The commit mail of revision 4910 includes a list of all files removed from the repository. -- regards Thomas

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

2008-06-10 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > @Thomas: could you merge the people/eartoast/fix-copyright branch? Hi Henning, in my opinion it's difficult to say when a patch is worth that a copyright message should be included. All people that are listed

Re: setup-storage!!!! :)

2008-09-15 Thread Thomas Lange
fill out the FAI questionnaire http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. P.S.: in the README file http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/paella/trunk/README you say >This project is inspired heavily by fai (fully automatic install) by

Re: stable-proposed-updates?

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:46:28 +0100, Holger Levsen > said: > 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 ;-) The patch is ok. holger, thanks for doing the s-p-u stuff. -- regards Thom

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:28:37 +0100, Holger Levsen > said: > resend to fai-devel, as bcc:s are stuck in moderation. Thomas is it ok to > commit the attached patch to trunk? No, not yet. I like to review it by myself. I will apply it to trunk when I looked at it. -- regards Th

Re: Huge number of lintian messages

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:19:12 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: E: fai-client: dir-or-file-in-var-run var/run/fai/ >>> >>> that one needs investigation. >> >> /var/run is not guaranteed to keep files after a reboot as it may be on >> a ramdisk. >>

Re: Huge number of lintian messages

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 1 May 2009 14:49:10 +0200, Holger Levsen > said: >> W: fai source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 4 > uhm, yes, should be set to 5 (to ease backporting to etch) Already set to 7. >> W: fai source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.0 (current is 3

New directory for tftpd and FAI files?

2009-09-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, with squeeze, the tftp daemon can only be run in daemon mode. The default root directory for tftpd will be /srv/tftp. Currently in FAI we change the root directory of tftpd from /var/lib/tftpboot to /srv/tftp/fai, this is done in inetd.conf by default. I'm thinking about different possib

Cleanup of FAI svn directory

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi FAI developers, I ask you to have a look at your branches in the FAI svn repository and do a cleanup of old unused directories (e.g. eartoast/fix-copyright, faiguy/bugfix/480830,...). It's easier for others to find relevant information if obsolete data is removed. You should also have a look a

Re: FAI Support for FreeBSD

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:34:16 -0800, Jason Helfman said: > I am interested if FAI can be modified to support FreeBSD and the ports > infrastructure? I would be particularly interested in native support, if > that can be done. Since I do not have any experiences with BSD, I need

Re: FAI Support for FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:42:53 -0800, Jason Helfman said: >> - Is the tool parted available? > No. Oh, that's bad. Our partinioning tool depends on parted, and rewriting it is not possible. > bsdlabel > fdisk > newfs If BSD fdisk is the same as for Linux, we can use our

Re: FAI Support for FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:05:53 -0800, Jason Helfman said: > Can you expand on "create the nfsroot," and what this is and what it should > contain? It should contain a minimal set of commands that are needed to run a system ( the jail). Also a kernel and an initrd (does BSD have such

FAI Workshop 2010

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Lange
Es ist wieder mal Zeit fuer einen FAI Workshop. Von Freitag 2.Juli bis zum Sonntag 4.Juli 2010 koennen wir im Linuxhotel in Essen wieder eifrig an FAI arbeiten. Zielgruppe fuer dieses Treffen sind Leute, die schon Erfahrung mit FAI gemacht haben und bereit sind an dem Wochenende an FAI mitzuarbeit

FAI workshop 2010 wiki page

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I've set up the wiki page for the next FAI workshop. I tried to keep the information short, because noone likes to read very long text. But feel free to add more information. The wiki page is http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/DeveloperWorkshopJuly2010 Currently we do not h

debootstrap for RPM based distributions

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Just for the archive. There's a tool called rinse (part of xen-tools), which can created a minimal chroot environment for RPM based distributions. This may be usefull for creating the basefiles for FAI. http://xen-tools.noone.org/software/rinse/ -- regards Thomas

Re: make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk :(

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 18 May 2010 17:28:38 +0200, Juergen Kahnert > said: > any idea why this: > # make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk > mkramdisk $target/var/lib/dpkg > was added into /usr/lib/fai/subroutines? This makes the installation much faster (on machine which have enough me

FAI workshop

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, again this year, we will held a FAI workshop meeting from july 2-4 at the Linuxhotel (http://www.linuxhotel.de) in Essen, Germany. People which already use FAI meet there to work the whole weekend on improving the FAI software like we did in the past. If you have experiences with FAI and

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

2010-06-19 Thread Thomas Lange
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? -- regards Thomas

FAI roadmap

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas Lange
I've created a little roadmap for the FAI development. It includes some topics I like to work on for the next release and a brief timeline. Comments are welcome. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/roadmap -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:20:53 +0100, Michael Tautschnig > said: > - Please make that DHCP-transition-bug top priority. We really shouldn't be > blocking transitions. (Well, they'll ignore FAI anyway, but it's just such a > small change that only requires proper conside

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:43:00 +0100, Joel Merrick > said: > Looks good Thomas, one thing I'd like to ask about though is IPv6 support. I guess this is not a FAI problem. > I realise that there's a lack of PXE booting in IPv6 (very Yep. My guess is that even in three years or s

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:37:06 +0100, Michael Tautschnig > said: > I'd propose something as simple as checking for -d /etc/dhcp3 or -d /etc/dhcp > (just writing that off the top of my head, paths may be wrong) and act > accordingly!? I might be missing something and clearly

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-21 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:42:13 -0400, Holger Levsen > said: > IMHO it's - as Julien said - quite risky to not have fai in testing until mid > september, that could very well be after the freeze. And it's quite likely > that new packages will not be allowed into squeeze af

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-21 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:23:56 +0100, Michael Tautschnig > said: > While technically possible, it's not a very nice attitude to plainly ignore the > freeze. There is no freeze yet which I ignore. And during the next two weeks I will work a lot on FAI. > I just need to know

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:43:42 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: >> fai-nfsroot.install: etc/dhcp3/dhclient-fai-script >> fai-nfsroot.install: etc/dhcp3/dhclient-fai.conf >> > But, well, has anybody out there actually looked at what truly > will be broken with the d

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:16 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: > Sure - but the DHCP issue wasn't/isn't on your roadmap. But if you accept the > proposed patch it needn't go there, it's done already :-) Not really. If the patch is in trunk, there's still a package upload missi

Re: FAI roadmap

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:51:51 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: > @Thomas: If I get your ACK I will, after coordinating with Mika, push it into > trunk. Maybe you could also voice your opinion about the desired strategy for > the simple examples, as I proposed two in my p

First beta of FAI 4 available

2010-08-07 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi, I've just created the first beta version of FAI 4 - version 4.0~beta0. It's meant to include brand new features, so it will NOT make it into the Debian squeeze release. Currently this version is only tested with lenny. More changes will be added to this version before the final 4.0 release,

Re: Bug#595365: Intent to 0-day NMU FAI 3.4.1 to fix #595365

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:29:37 +0200, Julien BLACHE > said: > I intend to prepare, test and upload an NMU of FAI 3.4.1 tomorrow to > finally beat FAI into shape for Squeeze (fixing #595365). I see no reason why to do an NMU. Mika is on vacation until tomorrow, and he will care ab

FAI $HOME has moved

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Lange
For more than 11 years now, FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) lived happily at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai. Now that it's grown up, it finally deserves its own home at http://fai-project.org. This also means less typing for all of FAI's friends. Homepage old: http://www.informatik.uni-

Re: Request-for-Review of Stable Release 3.4.3 (was: Another issue with RAID preserve in 3.4.x)

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: > It's a bit more than a ping: I think we urgently need some definite information > on the kernel command line issues (see the "Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - > No $HOSTNAME set"-thread). > @Thomas: Co

Re: Request-for-Review of Stable Release 3.4.3 (was: Another issue with RAID preserve in 3.4.x)

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig > said: > It's a bit more than a ping: I think we urgently need some definite information > on the kernel command line issues (see the "Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - > No $HOSTNAME set"-thread). OK, I now can con

FAI stable release management

2010-10-18 Thread Thomas Lange
JFTR, if you patch doc/fai-guide.txt, you should also updte the date (line 8) of the document. In 3.4.4 the patch "[2dbf3c5] fai-guide.txt:" changed it, but didn't update the date. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.4

2010-11-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 19:14:18 +0100, Manuel Hachtkemper > said: > your patch > # svn diff -c 6150 > + > +# live-config provides hostname handling through a separate script, > +# $HOSTNAME isn't available in environment any longer > +if [ -x /lib/live/

Re: Upcoming FAI Stable release 3.4.5

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:30:39 +0100, Michael Prokop said: > If you have any objections or if I should include any further > patches please let me know. Any feedback appreciated. This list looks good to me. I wonder if we can fix #602763 (apt-proxy -> approx) easily. Following svn r

Re: Upcoming FAI Stable release 3.4.5

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:31:14 +0100, Michael Prokop said: > Looking at the mentioned revisions it looks pretty straight forward. > If no one else comes up with a "forward backport" for 3.4 I'll take > care of it on my own, I think I should be able to test it with my > testsuit

generate debian changelog from svn log

2010-11-10 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi folks, I created a simple script to generate the Debian changelog from the svn log entries. It prints every first line of each commit message and the files changed/added/deleted. These messages will be collected by each author. Here's a sample output: [ mt ] * changelog: added changelog

Re: TEST: fai & libeatmydata

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:13:33 +0100, Julien BLACHE > said: > We went from 45 minutes down to somewhere around 22-25 minutes. Wow! > This was done by adding libeatmydata to LD_PRELOAD in the instsoft hook Great idea. Currently FAI has "only" the ramdisk on top of /var/lib/dpkg,

Re: Patch for fcopy

2010-12-04 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:57:06 +0100, Michael Tautschnig > said: > Thank you very much for this contribution and sorry for taking so long to > respond. Thanks Michael for adding this patch. I also like to add the patch to FAI, but had no time in the past. > I took the freedom

Re: device2grub

2011-02-11 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:15:43 +0100, Michael Goetze > said: > Therefore, I propose to make device2grub independent of $target. An > example implementation can be found below. I checked this patch on all my machines. The new version of device2grub work fine for all of them. I ha

Re: website down

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:54:56 +0100, Mathieu Alorent > said: > I would just like to point out that the website > (http://fai-project.org/) seems to be down. Yep, we are doing a webserver migration. It will be available in about one hour. -- regards Thomas

FAI workshop at Linuxhotel

2011-08-02 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, the next FAI workshop will be held from Friday 21 October to Sunday 23 October 2011 at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. This year, we will focus on preparing the 4.0 release. The necessary work focusses on testing, updating documentation, fixing bugs, and getting the Ubuntu package in a

git pull request

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I did some comments on the first pull request at https://github.com/faiproject/fai/pull/1 It would be nice to get more help/comments, so those patches can be proceeded soon. -- regards Thomas

Re: Pls don't remove legacy samples

2012-01-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:43:22 +0100 (GMT+01:00), s...@sourcecode.de said: > Please don't remove legacy examples like this one > https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/8f03ac8dac457ab81f90c6c27fd4da091ef80572 I removed the LILO example, since it was not working any more and I do not

Re: reporting a documentation bug and couple of questions

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:35:11 +0100, "Thomas Neumann" > said: > I found a documentation bug in > http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/ar01s07.html . (What is the proper way to > report this bug?) Use the Debian BTS. > (I LOVE THE HOOKS! THANK YOU FOR IMPLEMENTING THEM!) Tha

Re: RFC: Adding prepareapt (repository) task to softupdate action

2012-02-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:53:27 +0100 (CET), Jan-Marek Glogowski > said: > I want to add the prepareapt task to the softupdate action in the upcoming > 4.0 release. Nice idea, even this changes the behaviour of softupades. I will add this task to softupdates. -- regards Thomas

FAI 4.0 testing stage starts right now

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Lange
After working several month on the next major release including a developer weekend the testing stage for FAI 4.0 starts right now. I you still have patches you like to include into 4.0, send the patches until end of march to the BTS or open a git pull request on the github project page of FAI. Th

FAI 4.0 rc0

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi FAI developers, since Debian will freeze its next release in june, there's not much time left for releasing FAI 4.0. Therefore I've created the FAI 4.0~rc0 package for final testing. After that I will upload FAI 4.0 into the Debian archive. The package is available at http://jenkins.grml.o

Re: Error: at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Parser.pm line 382

2013-09-04 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:29:16 +0200, Karl Koch said: > Good Morning, is the same Problem with 'C': No, it not the same problem. > (CMD) parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print 1> /tmp/0MMJ46TdOt 2> /tmp/ig5grBuJds > Executing: parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print > (STDOUT) Model: H

Anyone interested in FAI in Ubuntu?

2013-10-12 Thread Thomas Lange
I'm wondering why the FAI packages in Ubuntu are still the old version 3.4.8ubuntu4? Why are they not updated to 4.x? It would be great if some people would join the FAI team and take care of the Ubuntu packages and the bugs in Ubuntu. They should also test new FAI versions for Ubuntu and make the

fai-project package repository is now signed only with my new gpg key

2014-01-29 Thread Thomas Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As I announced in november, I have a new gpg key. https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-November/010220.html Since last week the fai-project package repository is signed only with my new key. Before I signed it with my old and new key.

Re: 'sameas:' broken, fix included

2014-06-24 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Thomas, thanks for the patches. But please post the actual patch also to the bug in the BTS. It would be nice it you could separate the whitespace diffs from all other patches. I appreciate your effort, but I really like to understand all diffs before applying any patches and mixing whitespace

Re: 'sameas:' broken, fix included

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:14:40 +0200, Thomas Neumann > said: > The actual fix is simply changing line > $FAI::configs{$FAI::device} = Storable::clone($FAI::configs{"PHY_" . $ref_dev}); > into > $FAI::configs{$FAI::device} = Storable::dclone($FAI::configs{"PHY_" . $ref

FAI release for Debian Jessie

2014-09-29 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi folks, currently we are working on FAI 4.3 which should be uploaded to unstable until mid of october, so it will enter testing before the release freeze of Debian Jessie. If you have any wishes for this next release, please feel free to post it to this mailing list. We also welcome any feedb

Re: Origin location of pxelinux.0 inside fai-make-nfsroot

2014-10-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:10:22 -0700, Ronan Keryell said: > I have an issue with fai-make-nfsroot around lines 492--508 : > It is not clear to me why pxelinux.0 is fetched from $NFSROOT instead of the > local file system? Yes, that's not clean. > - it is more related to the

Re: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:37:28 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > Currently I see the following ways of improving things: > * Get the FAI-Project at launchpad[1] up to date. Nice. I will contact someone, that can give you write access to the launchpad page. > I can do this, bu

Re: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:16:30 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > I think we can take care of almost all issues at packaging time as > described in [3]. Nice link. I didn't know that this was possible. What are the current diffs in the packaging files for Ubuntu? > The only rea

Re: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:44:32 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: >> What are the current diffs in the packaging files for Ubuntu? > For my PPA none and the packages build and install just fine - the only But isn't it much more comfortable, if the Ubuntu version of FAI already includ

Re: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:44:32 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > described in [3]. And if that is not sufficient rather add a > configuration file that is adjusted before building. What about a ubuntu/patches subdir, which contains the patches needed for building the Ubuntu version

Re: [PATCH] Tiny build patch

2014-11-13 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:44:42 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > Here's a tiny patch fixing the debhelper-but-no-misc-depends warning. Thanks. Already applied. I push this soon. -- regards Thomas

RE: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:59:35 +0100, Robert Markula > said: > What else would be great would be a Ubuntu-specific readme in the > fai-server packages that gives a quick step-by-step-guide on how to > get everything up and running (take 'fai-setup -vl' as an example). Ide

Re: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:49:30 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > What it recent? > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=dracut&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all 0.40+1-1 is currently available in Debian. https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dracut.html -- regards Thomas

Re: dracut in ubuntu (Was: RFC: How to improve Ubuntu support)

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:13:51 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > Hmm, but only in testing. And vivid is there, too: > https://launchpad.net/dracut > So, for Ubuntu I see two options. Add a ppa or contact Harald Hoyer [1]. > But's that's probably something you should do. I

Re: Add new package: fai-make-nfsroot

2014-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:15:22 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > I'd like to add a new package fai-make-nfsroot. > Rationale: In our system we have one central tftp and nfs server. For > the sake of clean systems we run fai-make-nfsroot on a different > machine. Also I like

Re: Add new package: fai-make-nfsroot

2014-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:08:28 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > To get the gist: fai-make-nfsroot.install (maybe an other package name > would be better) would contain > usr/sbin/fai-cd > usr/sbin/fai-make-nfsroot > usr/sbin/fai-nfsroot2image > usr/bin/fai-mirror

Re: setup-storage and GPT partition tables with EFI boot partition

2015-02-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:31:15 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > said: > disk_config sda fstabkey:uuid disklabel:gpt > primary - 512 vfatrw > primary / 3 ext4rw What if setup-storage would support a new "file system type" efi?

Re: New Ubuntu PPAs

2015-03-10 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:12:38 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > I updated/created two PPAs at Launchpad. The first contains > Launchpad-builds of the latest FAI-releases. > https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Hi morty, thanks for this great work. -- regards Thoma

Re: Ubuntu support / Redesign

2015-04-15 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:16:55 +0100, Moritz Struebe > said: > did you have time to have a look at my changes [1]? In the long run they > should also save you from having to make separate releases, e.g. for wheezy. > [1] https://github.com/cmorty/fai/tree/dev Hi morty, ich

Re: Ubuntu, Vivid: Dracut

2015-04-29 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:10:39 +0200, Moritz Struebe > said: > We are currently trying to getting Ubuntu installed, but getting the > dracut package installed seems a PITA. I already made some > adjustments[2], but I'm neither familiar with dracut nor a packaging expert.

FAI 5.0 release candidate

2015-11-06 Thread Thomas Lange
We are very happy to announce the release candidate of FAI 5.0! We plan to have a two week period of testing before the final release will be made. We still work on the FAI guide, but it has yet changed a lot and was updated for the new FAI version. Please give FAI 5.0 a try and give us feedback

FAI 5.0 autodiscover function

2015-11-06 Thread Thomas Lange
The new autodiscover function is done by booting a small ISO image of 19MB size only. This ISO image is available at http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/fai-auto-discover.iso or can be created with the command fai-cd. Some sample screenshots of this function are shown at http://fai-project.org/screensho

Re: Do you want patches here or github or some other way?

2016-01-02 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 16:27:18 -0800, Ian Kelling > said: > Re: Do you want patches here or github or some other way? You can do both. For small patches, use an email to this list, or to f...@fai-project.org. If a patch fixes a bug, please file a bug report to the Debian BTS and add the

Re: fcopy -H bug

2016-07-19 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 13:48:54 +0200, Edgar Fuß said: > There's a subtle bug that causes fcopy -H -r to fail to copy a symlink in case it points to an existing directory, i.e. > files/tmp/etc/CLASS -> /etc Hi Edgar, danke fuer die Analyse und den patch. Ist nun eingebaut. -- rega

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