On Friday 12 September 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > You could for example use this to get the version: > > $ strings pxelinux.0 | \ > > sed -rn "/^PXELINUX [.0-9]+/ s/^[^ ]* ([.0-9]+).*/\1/" > > 3.71 > > Do you think it would be a good idea to use : > tr -c '[:print:] ' '\n' > instead of "strings", in order to avoid depending on binutils for > production servers ? (popcon says that binutils is installed on 87% of > the systems... but the figure for dhcp/tftp enabled servers is probably > much lower). Up to you. strings was just the first thing that came to mind for me. There may even be smarter ways to do it. I don't know. > I still have your request to use local images on my TODO list. I'll leave you to play around with it a bit. It would be nice if custom images could be assigned a class though (I mean a similar identification to e.g. stable) and if multiple such classes could be used. > I want something robust for Lenny+1 : Not guessing anything; Don't > tweak configuration files (except boot arguments), consistent > architectures handling... Yes, there's also always the risk that we'll restructure the location where images can be found, so having some kind of configuration file for that would be nice.
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