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This week has been much slower with the image builder project. I've |
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wrinkled out several issues and generally worked on usability and |
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other frontend aspects. The backend (and frontend) currently handle |
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building a complete tar/gz image and letting the user download it with |
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the user's choice of profile (as in /etc/make.profile), based on |
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available binpkgs repositories, the base system (emerge system), and |
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an arbitrary set of packages (selected from a list derived from the |
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Packages file of the binpkgs repo). The frontend now also supports |
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new user registration. The front end offers fairly complete logs of |
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the build process, including converting ANSI colors to HTML |
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equivalents so logs can be colored too. |
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Things to do next week (and beyond): |
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-Invitation-only user registration system |
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-Management of disk space, meaning a good system that can be called by |
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cron to delete old images, logs, etc. that can be assumed to be no |
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longer needed. |
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-Work towards finalizing the database structure |
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-Addition of new options/features in frontend and implementation of |
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said options in backend |
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-Making the frontend more user-friendly |
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I'd also like to ask for input from anyone interested, especially |
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anyone who thinks they will use this system once it's public, so I |
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created a forum topic [1] for suggestions, requests, etc. |
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Anyone who would be interested in testing out this system if/when a |
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testing server becomes available, please also email me off-list. |
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Eitan |
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[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5830406.html |
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