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On 05/05/2013 08:14 PM, Devan Franchini wrote: |
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> Funny enough, I already had your link saved in my bookmarks so I could |
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> start with that in my process of understanding how it all works, then |
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> trying to implement it into catalyst. Thanks :) |
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> Devan Franchini |
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> On May 5, 2013 8:11 PM, "Rich Freeman" <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Devan Franchini <oot153@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college, |
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>>> in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in |
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>>> Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like |
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>>> to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support. |
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>>> This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS |
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>>> images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to |
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>>> learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building |
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>>> a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS |
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>>> images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process |
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>>> into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can |
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>>> create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud. |
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>> I think a catalyst-based approach would be cleaner, but feel free to |
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>> make use of the AWS bootstrap scripts at: |
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>> https://github.com/rich0/rich0-gentoo-bootstrap - branch rich0-changes. |
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>> The original scripts are by Eric Dowd, and I've been tweaking them to |
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>> make them a bit more flexible (he's merged back a number of these |
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>> changes). I'll warn you that they're a bit prone to failure depending |
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>> on the state of the tree, but for the most part these are only |
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>> failures that any unfortunate soul trying to install Gentoo for the |
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>> first time would run into. Old stage3s tend to be the biggest source |
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>> of problems, and integrating this into catalyst would fix that. |
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>> Rich |
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Hi guys, Devan is my student at D'Youville college. I'm interested in |
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this project too. Is it possible for me to co-mentor it? I think |
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Donnie proposed it, but I could spend some time on it too. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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