Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[Devan Franchini]

Funny enough, I already had your link saved in my bookmarks so I could
start with that in my process of understanding how it all works, then
trying to implement it into catalyst. Thanks :)

Devan Franchini
On May 5, 2013 8:11 PM, "Rich Freeman" <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Devan Franchini <oot153@×××××.com> wrote:
> >       My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college,
> > in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in
> > Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like
> > to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support.
> > This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS
> > images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to
> > learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building
> > a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS
> > images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process
> > into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can
> > create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud.
>
> I think a catalyst-based approach would be cleaner, but feel free to
> make use of the AWS bootstrap scripts at:
> https://github.com/rich0/rich0-gentoo-bootstrap - branch rich0-changes.
>
> The original scripts are by Eric Dowd, and I've been tweaking them to
> make them a bit more flexible (he's merged back a number of these
> changes).  I'll warn you that they're a bit prone to failure depending
> on the state of the tree, but for the most part these are only
> failures that any unfortunate soul trying to install Gentoo for the
> first time would run into.  Old stage3s tend to be the biggest source
> of problems, and integrating this into catalyst would fix that.
>
> Rich
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