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I forgot to post a status report since last Friday was pretty hectic. |
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In short form, last week I: |
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-Finished the logging mechanisms so that the logs will track things |
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besides just command execution. |
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-Wrote a command-line wrapper in C to an ISO manipulation library to |
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make things far more efficient and avoid any number of difficulties |
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with generating bootable ISOs from the Gentoo autobuilds |
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-Stopped generating the base system with emerge system (which was very |
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slow and not really complete) and moved to using stage3 tarballs |
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instead |
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-Cache a list of packages and init scripts present in the stage3s in |
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the database |
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-Quite a bit of clean-up of the backend to make the logs less messy |
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and the automatic notification emails actually usable |
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In the last two days, I: |
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-Cleaned up some pointless links in the frontend |
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-Rehashed the configuration wizard so I can reuse the HTML form |
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classes in other contexts |
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-Tweaked the package selection mechanism for efficiency |
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-Added the option to remove init scripts enabled by default and |
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packages present in the stage3 |
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Ideally I'd like to make the system available for testing ASAP, but |
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since the system needs root access to run, getting a server to run it |
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on is a little tricky. |
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I'd like to ask for some input here. I intend to make an option |
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available whereby instead of using an entire stage3 system, the user |
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can choose to have all packages not absolutely necessary for a working |
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system uninstalled. Please respond off-list with the following: the |
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make.profile you use (or arch) and a list of packages absolutely |
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necessary for the base system. |
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