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regarding fai-client: install_packages E: Unable to locate package ...
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Package: fai-client
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
When a non-existing package is in the list of packages passed to
install_packages apt-get responds with the following error message.
E: Unable to locate package ...
This in turn fails the installation of all the packages in the list.
I know this is the default behavior of apt-get but I would like to
request an option for install_packages to ignore non-existing packages
and retry the installation again with the same list but without the
non-existing package(s).
If such an option won't be implemented then an option to isolate a list
of packages to be installed could also work. Then a user could define a
list of packages that they would be ok with not being installed due to
reasons such as them being non-existing.
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Markus
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You did not specified in which version of FAI that problem still
exists.
install_packages again removes the unknown packages unless -N is used,
but I do not know in which exact version it was fixed.
I should work at lea
There's also a new option -c which just checks the list of packages,
if they are known.
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regards Thomas
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