[Fai-commit] r5055 - trunk/debian

[lange at alioth.debian.org]

Author: lange
Date: 2008-08-29 15:00:20 +0000 (Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
New Revision: 5055

Modified:
   trunk/debian/control
Log:
update the description (closes: #496113)


Modified: trunk/debian/control
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/control	2008-08-29 13:16:06 UTC (rev 5054)
+++ trunk/debian/control	2008-08-29 15:00:20 UTC (rev 5055)
@@ -19,13 +19,17 @@
 Replaces: fai
 Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai
 Description: Fully Automatic Installation client package
- FAI is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating
- system unattended on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin
- PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, Linux is installed,
- configured, and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction
- necessary.
+ This is the client package for FAI, the fully automatic installation
+ and system configuration management suite.
  .
- This package contains the software needed on the install client.
+ It contains the parts necessary to run the softupdate functionality
+ on already installed systems, and is needed for the dirinstall
+ functionality and others on a FAI server.
+ .
+ FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage
+ Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as
+ virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to
+ large infrastructures and clusters.
 
 Package: fai-doc
 Architecture: all
@@ -46,13 +50,19 @@
 Replaces: fai
 Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai
 Description: Fully Automatic Installation server package
- FAI is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating
- system unattended on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin
- PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, Linux is installed,
- configured, and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction
- necessary.
+ FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage
+ Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as
+ virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to
+ large infrastructures and clusters.
  .
- This package is needed for setting up a FAI install server.
+ It's a tool for mass unattended Linux installation. You can take one
+ or more virgin systems, turn on the power, and after a few minutes,
+ the systems are installed, and completely configured to your exact
+ needs, without any interaction necessary.
+ .
+ This package is needed for setting up a FAI install server for network
+ installations, for running the dirinstall in a chroot environment, and
+ to build installation CD/DVD's and USB sticks.
 
 Package: fai-quickstart
 Architecture: all