I can confirm the exact same issue on maverick fai, fresh install and fully updated:
# fai --help fai FAI 3.4.3ubuntu1, 05 Oct 2010. Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Thomas Lange
# lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10
workaround in /etc/apt/make-fai-nfsroot.conf with the following resolves this: FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=info --include=aptitude"
I can confirm the exact same issue on maverick fai, fresh install and fully updated:
# fai --help
fai FAI 3.4.3ubuntu1, 05 Oct 2010. Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Thomas Lange
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
workaround in /etc/apt/ make-fai- nfsroot. conf with the following resolves this: _OPTS=" --exclude= info --include=aptitude"
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP