Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Erick Michau <erick.michau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSoC: Create a Web-based Gentoo image builder
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:42:45
Message-Id: b4c9c8900903261442g10892d1ej7b4a2caa2b9128c6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSoC: Create a Web-based Gentoo image builder by Peter Stuge
1 Hi,
2
3 Depending on your approach you might eventually be interested in a similar
4 tool called metro available at http://wiki.github.com/funtoo/metro
5 It provides similar features at certain levels and noticeable differences
6 too. It currently builds stable and unstable gentoo stages. Reading through
7 gives some knowledge about building stages.
8
9 It sounds like a very exciting project and the first questions that pop up
10 to my mind are: how would one interface catalyst/metro with a website? is
11 there any already existing similar framework? How much space would the
12 server require for how many concurrent users building stage1->3 all at the
13 same time?
14
15 I have no clue as for the answers but it really feels like an interesting
16 challenge.
17
18 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
19
20 > Eugen Serban wrote:
21 > > I would like to approach this idea for the GSoC 2009.
22 >
23 > That's an interesting idea.
24 >
25 >
26 > > Can anyone help with some "how to"s or a forum or something like
27 > > that where I can learn more about Catalyst?
28 >
29 > Not really.
30 >
31 >
32 > > I am not very familiar with it.
33 >
34 > You should start using it. Build five or ten stages. Pick a hardware
35 > that you want to build for, and start from the example stage spec
36 > files installed together with catalyst.
37 >
38 > You will need good knowledge and understanding of Gentoo, portage,
39 > USE flags and so on, to quickly absorb most of what catalyst is
40 > about.
41 >
42 >
43 > //Peter
44 >
45 >

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSoC: Create a Web-based Gentoo image builder Eugen Serban <eugen.shr@×××××.com>