Hi Sam, On Sunday 01 October 2006 22:31, you wrote: > Please note that this new feature does not interfere with your > approach of using the debootstrap build method and then running > softupdate.
Sure. I would just be happy to throw away my approach and use yours :-)
> Perhaps we can suggest these two methods as alternatives
> for building vservers in the documentation.
I think this (under the title "setting up vservers") is more confusing and has
no benifits.
My approach is just a logical extension of softupdates, which should be
covered anyway.
Your approach should be the offical way to setup vservers.
> Far from being a "regression", each approach has its advantages and
> disadvantages; the approach of using the nfsroot (which, of course,
> becomes a somewhat figurative term) makes the build a single logical
> step, and ensures consistency if the intent is to prototype real host
> builds using vservers.
An nfsroot is just debootstrap plus some extra packages defined in fai.conf.
So the consistency can be easily reproduced without relying on a actual
existing nfsroot.
I also fail to see why an nfsroot is needed for i386 builds on amd64.
> As for the default paths being "obsolete", I am currently working on
I hope you read my comment on #vserver about why I'm so upset if I see those
pathes: I insisted three years to make FAI behave in a FHS compatible way and
after this long time I really freak out, if I see /usr/local/share/fai - it
makes my eyes bleed and my brain cry ;-) Nothing personal :)
> making this usable for the current stable release of debian before I
> move on to making it work with testing. I based it off FAI 2.10.1;
> and plan to re-base it off the latest 2.x release. Please bear in
> mind that I have been familiarizing myself with FAI along the way, and
> that now we have a working system (and the projects we are using this
> for - the .nz registry system and NZ Electoral Enrolment Centre
> offices - are in deployment phase), we are in a position to spend time
> to take our improvements and share them.
Cool.
> Perhaps in the meantime you
> might have suggestions for detecting which version of FAI is
> installed
"dpkg -l fai" or "dpkg -l fai-client" if using the split packages (which are
default since etch.)
regards,
Holger
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