Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Adrian, adrian15 wrote: > I was just wondering if Thomas had seen if this bug was solved or not. > Are we going to have FAI working ok on Ubuntu 9.10? Last thing I heard was that the fai package will be removed completely from Ubuntu, even though my opinion is, that softupdate and dirinstall w

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:42:14 +0200, adrian15 said: > Thomas Lange and I did some work together on improving the FAI Ubuntu > package so that it worked on Ubuntu 9.10. We (three people) decided to remove the fai packages from Ubuntu 9.10, since currently there's nobody that has time

Re: How to dynamically add a repository in FAI?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Alex Ingle
Hello Michael, Thank you for your help. We followed your suggestions with some modification and it helps. We can set repositories based on HW class. And we should be able to manage version of package by adding package pin entry in /etc/apt/preferences/CLASS when needed Here what we did. 1) We used

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
Thomas Lange wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:42:14 +0200, adrian15 >> said: > > > Thomas Lange and I did some work together on improving the FAI Ubuntu > > package so that it worked on Ubuntu 9.10. > We (three people) decided to remove the fai packages from Ubuntu 9.10, > since

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
Henning Sprang wrote: > Per Foreby wrote: >> Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of >> switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad news. > > Good to have some more people tell this! > > When this decision was made, I heavily disagreed, but no

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:47:51 +0200, Per Foreby said: > Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of > switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad news. I can only care about FAI in Debian. In the past Ubuntu often changed things that b

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Per Foreby wrote: > Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of > switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad news. Good to have some more people tell this! When this decision was made, I heavily disagreed, but no one believed me that people are us

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
Thomas Lange wrote: >> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:47:51 +0200, Per Foreby said: > > > Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of > > switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad > news. > I can only care about FAI in Debian. In the past Ub

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Per Foreby wrote: > Since Ubuntu is basically a sid snapshot, one might think that it would > be trivial to support fai on Ubuntu. It should (and most probably really is) for the softupdate and dirintalls part - it is not for the network/cd-install part due to dependecies against special layered

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden adrian15
Thomas Lange escribió: On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:42:14 +0200, adrian15 said: > Thomas Lange and I did some work together on improving the FAI Ubuntu > package so that it worked on Ubuntu 9.10. We (three people) decided to remove the fai packages from Ubuntu 9.10, since currently there's

Re: Installing seamonkey

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Markus Köberl
On Friday 04 September 2009, John G. Heim wrote: > As I write this, it occurs to me that what I am really asking is if it is > possible to add an item to the gnome default menu in a shell script. I am not completely sure, it is a long time ago that i had to do this. It worked with debian etch for

Installing seamonkey

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
Anybody know if it is possible to install seamonkey via FAI? I have discovered that you can make it work by simply copying the whole seamonkey directory from a working installation to another machine. But then there are no menu items. The user has to run it by running it from a terminal window

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Slightly OT, but: adrian15 wrote: > that might be solved with Debian new six-month relesase cycle. Debian's what? Last thing I heard was two years - did I miss something? Henning

Re: Installing seamonkey

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
From: "Markus Köberl" I am not completely sure, it is a long time ago that i had to do this. It worked with debian etch for gnome and kde. Try to create an aplicationname.desktop file at /usr/share/applications and run update-menus example of the aplicationname.desktop file which worked fine