Hi,

On Monday 20 June 2005 14:29, you wrote:
> > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready.
> ?!
> prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with
> apt; if an updated sources.list points to sarge while it pointed before at
> woody, you are able to pull your box from woody to sarge without
> reinstallation.

Even though this is nice and fancy, it's a bad hack. IMHO you should 
provide/use classes WOODY and SARGE and use scripts/SARGE to change 
sources.list on that machine. In task_configure not in task_prepareapt.

I'm aware that your approach is slightly more effective/faster, but I do 
believe it's to hackish.

On softupdates apt is set up allready. No need (and no sane way) of updating 
it _as_default_.

> > please not as DEFAULT. Maybe in FAIBASE which I propose not to use in
> > default softupdates ;-)
> that's what _I_ use in the config for my machines here, which is quite
> different from the fai simple-example.

Please keep in mind the scope of the simple examples... (which in a lot of 
peoples opinion should become part of a default config some day.)


regards,
        Holger

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