Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst wishlist for 2005

[John Davis]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 17:56 -0600, Michael Nygard wrote:
> It's a fantastic tool, very powerful, very flexible.  That also makes it
> hard to learn.
>
> More/improved documentation.  I've just spent a week getting a single
> livecd-stage1 build done.  The instructions in the howto leave a lot of
> unanswered questions that have to be answered via trial and error.  (And
> each trial takes a looong time.)
>
> How about an out-of-the-box configuration that either a) builds the last
> major release or b) builds an image of exactly the current system,
> without requiring _any_ config or spec file edits.
>
> Thanks for all the work on catalyst!  It's an amazing tool, and I
> haven't seen anything else like it!
>
> Cheers,
> -Mike Nygard


Chris (wolf31o2) was working on this for 2004.3, but it never got
completed. Chris and I will most likely make something like this a
requirement for 2005.0 (emerge release-specs or something like it).

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis <zhen@g.o>
The Gentoo Foundation
Trustee | Release Engineering Manager | Catalyst code monkey

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