Thanks very much Thomas.
On 02/21/2013 04:35 AM, Thomas Lange wrote:
In /etc/fai we defined things for creating the nfsroot. Therefore /etc/fai/NFSROOT contains a list of packages to be installed into the nfsroot. /etc/fai/apt/sources.list is used for locating the package repository when creating the nfsroot. Package listed in package_config/FAIBASE (and similar files) are only used when installing the install clients. So, this is pretty normal in FAI and sometimes this confuses people.
As it did me... May I explore variation from the development Debian Squeeze? I'm no fan of Pandora. So using FAI "simple" example -- the native distro on the server should build clones with the same distro for the client that exists on the server using /etc/fai/... data structure. Variation on archetecture and application packages is built into .../package_config/... and /etc/fai/NFSROOT... but only for one distro. I have FAI server built on ubuntu 12.04. Now borrowing from another thread titled "does ARM Server also support FAI" and from the FAI site documentation also, part of the answer for me seems to be to build Debian ARM instance using a configuration found in /etc/fai-debian.squeeze/... We begin building a list of distros as /etc/fai-distro.release/... so that .../NFSROOT may be taylored to build with kernel-sensitive packages like inetramfs vs dracut for each distro. Seems like upstart also is part of the mix. Likely that applications also vary, thus /srv/fai/config could also to be a similar structure perhaps /srv/fai-distro.release/... so that the build data in /srv/... follows /etc/... This seems important when packaging varies as in Fedora "http" vs Debian "apache". Given that at fai-make-nfsroot time a kernel is built for cloning at PXE time, it means to me that /src/tftp/fai will contain a catalog of all kernels built for all clients. I have not gone back far enough in the archive to find discussion on the subject of having distro a parameter and the parameter used to create a data structure. Has /etc/fai/distro/... been considered?
This does not apply to the Ubuntu packages! I do not test them at all and currently noone cares about the FAI packages in Ubuntu. This is the reason why FAI and Ubuntu is not running so smooth as with Debian.
A major feature drawing me to FAI is pre-building a kernel for cloning into various clients. My prior approach was to catalog various CD/DVDs and build from scratch [and kickstart] via PXE. Please consider that I for one care about FAI on ubuntu. Because various architectures and distros fit my objectives, as I find variation from your preferred Debian, I can commit to bring them to this reflector. This does mean I next create /etc/fai-debian.squeeze/... to create my foundation client then perhaps work backwards into /etc/fai/... as my "default" ubuntu.12.04. Is there something simpler? Cheers Geo
