install_packages - install FAI configured packages

install_packages

Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is used to provide unattended installation of Debian GNU/Linux operating systems with a very flexible class-based system. install_packages is a Perl script written for FAI to selectively install, hold, remove, or purge packages or tasks.

install_packages is called from the custom fai_rcS script and should not be called directly. It's function is to parse the package_config files based on the class definitions of the client. For example, if the client belonged to the SMTPSERVER class, install_packages would parse ../package_config/SMTPSERVER for instructions on what packages to install, hold, remove, or purge.

-d

Only download packages instead of installing them. Variable $aptoptions must be set.

-h

Show help, version and summary of options.

-l

Print only the list of all packages that would be installed, then exit.

-L

Print the list of all packages with version number that would be installed, then exit.

-m MAX

Install only MAX packages at a time

-t

Test mode. Do not execute installation commands.

-v

Be verbose.

install_packages expects to find the FAI_ROOT directory, the location of class definitions, package configurations, and custom install scripts, somewhere in the filesystem. This location is configurable in /etc/fai/fai.conf and defaults to /usr/local/share/fai.

This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). See the FAI manual for more information on how to use install_packages. The FAI homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai.

apt(1), apt-get(8), dpkg(8), tasksel(1)

The FAI configuration file.

The FAI package configuration directory.

Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>