SYNOPSIS
install_packagesDESCRIPTION
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
- -d
- Only download packages instead of installing them. Variable $aptoptions must be set.
- -h
- Show help, version and summary of options.
- -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.
- -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/
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The FAI package configuration directory.