Roadmap for FAI

These are topics that are important for the next FAI release. If you have any suggestions or like to work on a topic, please get in contact before you start working.

Topics for FAI 4.0

--- DONE ---
add MAC support for fai-chboot (in pxelinux.cfg file name)
receive tar file of config space via http, use xz for compression
get client config data which is needed in /target (sources.list, resolv.conf, hosts, apt preferences, other apt stuff) from the config space (using fcopy) instead of getting it from inside the nfsroot
fcopy preinst exit code: #573044
should ainsl's exit code tell if something was appended? No.
make uuid in disk_config default
new variable FAI_RAMDISKS? mkramdisk will use it
faimond-gui: new option, that uses half size icons, so more hosts can be displayed
add GRUB2 support to fai-cd
add option to fai-mirror to set MAXPACKAGES
replace apt-proxy with apt-cacher-ng or approx (prefered by andreas)
put Debian specific configs in the new class DEBIAN
add cupt support to install_packages
fai-cd should create USB stick using grub2 (currently only grub1 can be used for USB sticks)
make ext4 as default? then only grub2 will work
make-fai-nfsroot should use xz compression if available
load *.asc files containing keys by class names
CentOS support
NFSROOT using NFS v4
rename task_prepareapt to task_repository
add new command fai-new-mac
Make nfsroot generic, remove server specific configs
--- TODO ---
send MAC address to faimond (or hostname), use BOOTIF for that?, patch from lhm
--- MINOR WISHES (will be postponed to 4.1) ---
new option for fcopy, that replaces variables in the source file. Use %%_VARIABLENAME_%% ? check a mail concerning that
faimond-gui: new option, remove host if everything went fine
add option -l to fai command. List status of fai. Show list of classes, date of last fai action
new action inventory

Timeline for next major release

The next major release will be FAI 4.0 (planed for 2012)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:41 +0100