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The main installer that was being worked on is Cursing Cow. Both developers |
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that were working on it recently left Gentoo, however. |
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If someone wanted to continue it's development, we probably can get the |
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information needed from them. From what I know, it's in pretty good |
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condition... part of it needed to be rewritten, but nothing major. |
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There's at least one (I think two) other installers in CVS, but I have no idea |
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on their status or where they were left at. |
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Building a good installer goes beyond installing Gentoo. For example, if the |
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installer has a module to configure networking, that module should be written |
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so that it works in the installer, but also in an after-install system |
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configuration tool. Installers also need to be able to handle updates or |
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"corrective installs", which means integration with configuration file |
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management. |
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Alain |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:04:10PM -0600, Jeff Rose wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm pretty new to gentoo, but I am an instant convert. Just a |
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> few months of emerge bliss and now I'm an avid supporter. Anyway, I'm |
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> thinking about starting a summer project and I'm pondering the idea of a |
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> gui installer. I've been looking around a bit and it doesn't look like |
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> anyone is working on one. Is that true? If there isn't already a project |
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> then I think I'll give it a whirl. I know, I know, gentoo is so great |
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> because it allows you to customize and tweak the hell out of everything. |
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> That is completely true. So, an installer would have to allow just as |
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> much but it could take care of the mundane details for those who aren't |
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> interested or knowledgable enough. |
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> I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the |
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> installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over |
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> hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you |
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> thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup, |
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> download, chroot... type of stuff? |
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> What do you think? |
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> -Jeff |
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