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Good day devs, and users: |
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It's a pleasure to announce that my personal project is on a pre-alpha |
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stage. Let me explain some details: |
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'installer' is the code-name for my project, I'm preparing it as my |
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thesis project here in Perú. Right now 'installer' is on a prototype |
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phase, but is ready for some external testing to receive some feedback. |
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installer has two sub-commands: |
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beginner: which is a tutorial-like program that explains all |
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the required steps to install a Gentoo system in a friendly |
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manner, it also enforces the reading of the Gentoo Handbook. |
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generate: produces a stageX tarball. StageX contains some of |
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the needed files to install and configure Gentoo linux, right |
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now these files include: |
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/etc/portage/* |
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/etc/timezone |
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/etc/locale.gen |
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/var/lib/portage/world |
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Some of the TODOs include: |
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-Implement the --tui option, which will show all the beginner tutorial |
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on a ncurses based terminal user interface. (This feature may or may |
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not be finished, depending on the previous feedback) |
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-Create the ebuild to be able to download and install it from l |
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ayman or even the main tree. |
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-Add expert sub-command, which will guide a more experimented user with |
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some notations during the installation phase. |
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-Test and add many validations |
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If you like, you can download/clone/fork it from: |
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https://github.com/ChrisADR/installer |
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Please keep in mind that you'll need to install 'installer' both in the |
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host and in the new Gentoo system if you want to test it, you can do it |
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by downloading the tarball and running setup.py install. |
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wget https://github.com/ChrisADR/installer/archive/v0.1.0-pre-alpha.ta |
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r.gz |
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tar xf v0.1.0-pre-alpha.tar.gz |
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cd v0.1.0-pre-alpha.tar.gz/ |
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python setup.py install |
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Installer is designed to work with Python 3.4 (since that's the stable |
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version right now). |
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Thank you for your time and help. |
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Best regards, |
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Christopher Díaz Riveros |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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GPG Fingerprint: E517 5ECB 8152 98E4 FEBC 2BAA 4DBB D10F 0FDD 2547 |
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