[gentoo-soc] [GSOC 2016] Stage4 Console Configurator

[Roman Prykhodko]

Hi, there

Let me introduce myself. My name is Roman Prykhodko. I am from Chernihiv,
Ukraine. I am a student of Chernihiv National University of Technology. I
have applied for Gentoo Stage4 Console Configurator in GSOC 2016. I have
been using Linux for a long time and for the last 2 years I have been using
Gentoo. I have chosen Gentoo not only for its speed or tools but also due
to its philosophy. It is high time to create a good tool for my favorite
distributive. The aim of my application is to create a tool for Gentoo
Foundation making/configuring stage4 archive from basic stage3 archive. It
can be used not only for faster deployment/installation but also to restore
the system after crash. I suppose this project will be just the first step
in my cooperation with Gentoo Foundation.

Stage4 is an image of rootfs. Difference between stage3 archive and stage4
archive is in context. Stage4 not only includes image of rootfs, but also
includes itself user congurations like edited make.conf(USE-flags,
compilator properties, etc), software that user installs or want to be
installed, kernel and bootloader. Its going to by useful for users that are
boring of doing same job few times in a row. So step by step I will create
a tool under my mentor's careful sight. In the end of the project we will
have a tool with ncurses user interface, ready to edit your rootfs
buildroot without any difference which architecture do user uses, scripts
on python to solve small problems like package dependencies, script to
build list of packages that can downloaded or took from the system and the
script for auto deploy.


My proposal:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zCnZKHa_ZEkg8vtlc2eJLySYCeFT_iESUzeE7JTLQY/edit?usp=sharing