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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 22:56, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:56, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > All I ask is for the backend to have a mode designed in that would allow |
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> > the feeding of the install profile incrementally. That would mean that |
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> > one could feed the backend an incomplete install profile and it would do |
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> > what it could based on that. Also take into account that this install |
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> > profile will not necessarilly contain all stages. |
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> As dan says in his email, we can still impliment this. However, there |
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> should be no pause while building a profile. Pauses should only come |
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> when installation has actually begun. Thus a complete XML file is |
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> generated first, then the backend is called to parse the file and |
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> perform installation (with or without pauses). |
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I find an after-the-fact interference idea to be quite unnatural. Another |
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option would be to feed the backend two xml files which basically have null |
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actions such that they complement eachoter. Such a solution however would be |
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suboptimal to me |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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