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NAME

install_packages - install FAI configured packages

SYNOPSIS

install_packages

DESCRIPTION

This command is only called internally by FAI and not directly by the user.

install_packages is a Perl script written for FAI to selectively install, hold, remove, or purge packages or tasks. Its 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.

OPTIONS

	-c		Check the list of packages if they are known, then exit. This only works for deb packages.
	-d		Only download packages instead of installing them. Variable $aptoptions must be set.
	-h		Show help, version and summary of options.
	-G		Generic mode. Use when install_packages is called by fai-mirror (using -IG) to create a generic package mirror for different combinations of the class list. This option ignores the logical not operator on PACKAGES lines and ignores package with suffix - (like packagename-) and only makes sense in download mode.
	-H		Show list of all available commands for the file in package_config.
	-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. Same as setting the shell environment variable MAXPACKAGES.
	-n		Dry run. Do not execute installation commands, just print them.
	-N		Do not check package names whether they are valid and remove unknown packages from the list. You can also set the variable FAI_DISABLE_PACKAGE_NAME_CHECK to 1.
	-P		Print the URIs of all packages that needs download. Only usefull when also using -d.

-p DIRECTORY

Read the configuration files from DIRECTORY instead of $FAI/packages_config.

	-s		Download source of binary packages that are installed. Currently supported only for apt-get/aptitude based installations.
	-v		Be verbose.

NOTES

install_packages expects to find the FAI_ROOT directory, the location of class definitions, package configurations, and custom install scripts, somewhere in the filesystem.

FILES

/srv/fai/config/package_config/

The FAI package configuration directory.

AUTHOR

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