Fai packages are not updated

The problem is a lack of maintainers. Someone needs to package and test it for Ubutu.
Currently I'm maintaining a ppa that is coherent with upstream [1], yet adjustments to the config must be made to get it working [2]. This mainly applies to small changes like adjusting the sources.list and packages that have different names.
I started working on a generic solution to allow upsteam to support ubuntu out of the box[3], but unfortunately, up to now, there was little response.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
[2] http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI
[3] https://github.com/cmorty/fai/tree/devel/ubuntu

Thanks for reporting.

The latest version packaged in Ubuntu at the moment is fai 3.4.8ubuntu5. The ubuntu-part of the version number says that this package has some Ubuntu-specific patches, which unfortunately means that any newer release from Debian will need to be manually merged by someone.

The problem is, that the current version from Debian needs adjustments to the config-files, while the version currently packed with Ubuntu does not work at all.

This bug was fixed in the package fai - 5.0.1ubuntu1

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fai (5.0.1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. (LP: #720613, #1443771)
    Remaining changes:
    - bin/fai-cd:
      + Add missing grub-common package.
    - conf/NFSROOT
      + Replace debian linux-image-* with linux-image-server.
    - conf/{sources.list, nfsroot.conf}:
      + Adjust to Ubuntu sources.
    - conf/nfsroot.conf:
      + Add "dhcp-client" to "--exclude" to FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS.
    - examples/simple/scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup:
      + Add command to regenerate grub.cfg.

 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:39:08 +0100