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On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> The backend doesn't actually do anything until all options have been |
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> chosen. ALL installation activity waits until AFTER the user would |
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> click "finish" (just an example). Nothing should be done until the user |
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> has made all choices. Once the user has made all choices, it will pass |
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> the xml file to the backend and perform the whole installation. This is |
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> really the desireable operation. |
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And as esammer already pointed out, this allows for reuse of the backend |
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in both attended and unattended installs. So, the interactivity is in |
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the frontend, the backend's responsibility is to perform an install |
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based on an install profile (what to do), and an arch profile (how to do |
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it), the frontend just gets an install profile together for the backend |
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to use, and optionally gathers status information from the backend as it |
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performs the install. |
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Nicholas D. Wolfwood <wolfwood@×××××××××××××××××.net> |
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