[UNMETDEPS] fai-quickstart has unmet dependencies

Quoting Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>:

> Public bug reported:
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> Affects: fai (Ubuntu)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Confirmed
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>
> Description:
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> affects distros/ubuntu/fai
> status confirmed
> subscribe motu
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> text:
> A run of
> LC_ALL=C apt-cache -i unmet | grep ^Package | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort -u | \
> xargs apt-cache showsrc | grep Package | sed 's/Package\:\ //g' | sort
> -u
> indicates that the source package fai has binary packages that are not
> installable at the moment.
>
> Please have a look and make sure it's installable again.

Maybe it would be useful to describe here _what_ binary package is meant here. I
don't know what xsim, as mentioned in the subject of this message, has to do
with FAI.

The Ubuntu team decided to remove foreign kernels, and FAI recommands the
fai-kernels package - is that what this bug is about?

Then only the Ubuntu developers can do something against that situtaion and
decide that the stuff needed fo fai-kernels get back into Ubuntu.
There is already a bug in launchpad about this IIRC.

For most users, this makes the FAI package delivered with Ubuntu very hard to
use, they need to download fai-kernels manually from the FAI download location
to get started easily with FAI.

Also, probably, the package fai-quickstart has unresolved dependencies like
that.

Henning

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Your analysis was right:
Package fai-quickstart version 2.9.1 has an unmet dep:
 Depends: fai-kernels

Can we do a UVF exception on 2.10.1 from Debian unstable? Seems to fix a great deal of issues.

Diffstat of orig.tar.gzs

Diff of Debian changelogs

Well, 2.10.1 runs great (using it as project software at my new company) but the problem is fai-kernels...which is not in universe...and here we should think about an exception, because those kernels are just for installing an installation client...not for booting the real system.

regards,

\sh

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