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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 22:53, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> Why? Many people would want to be able to do parts of the installation |
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> manually while doing others automatically. As some parts cannot be |
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> performed out of order this means that if we want to support such a |
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> hands-on mode for the installer, we need to allow partial scripts to be |
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> executed. |
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There is a way to allow this in execution-after-Finish-button mode, too. |
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In the settings XML sent by the FE to the BE, add a flag that makes the BE |
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pause after every step's execution and wait for a signal from the FE to |
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continue. Also add an option to tell the BE to skip executing a step, instead |
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of supplying data saying how to execute it. |
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Then the user can choose to skip step X, click 'finish - execute with pauses', |
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and when it comes to step X do whatever he wants in another console. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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