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Description of problem: busybox-anaconda was killed - see bugid #514319 system-config-netboot now complains: Required binary /sbin/busybox.anaconda is not found in the client root /tmp/ion/root. Install required packages in the client root and retry. Obviously, this is not possible in fedora 12: yum provides /sbin/busybox.anaconda Loaded plugins: downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit No Matches found Fedora 10 responds to above 'provides' with package: busybox-anaconda-1.10.3-3.fc10.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-netboot-0.1.45.4-7.fc12.noarch How reproducible: 100%
System-config-netboot is obsolete - I'm not sure it's worth to maintain it anymore - we have Cobbler as installation server and it's easier (and much more cleaner) to achieve diskless network boot with Dracut (but no UI is in place). What's your opinion (so I can eol this package/application)?
I don't know if it's gotten any maintenance attention since Fedora 12, if not, it seems completely broken (in more ways than what's described here it seems), so if there's another way an no energy being used towards a better system-config-netboot then it probably hurts more than it helps IMO. So FWIW I'd be in favor of eol'ing it.
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