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Hello, Gentooers! |
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*Intro* |
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Gentoo Anaconda is a fork of Sabayon Anaconda which is a fork of |
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Fedora/Red Hat Anaconda. Anaconda is an installer for Linux disros, |
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originally for Fedora/RH but now it's distro-independent and many |
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other distros use it as their installer. Sabayon is a binary distro |
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based on Gentoo. |
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* Progress so far * |
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The biggest accomplishment this week was the release of a LiveDVD with |
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Anaconda. I'm having some temporary connectivity issues, the LiveDVD |
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will be publicly available after these are resolved. |
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Apart from that, I've fixed the anaconda, grub and open-iscsi ebuilds |
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in the overlay, re-fitted the screens to accommodate the shiny Gentoo |
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banner with the current chapter and link to the handbook, made the new |
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screens validate user input, removed the configuration helpers from |
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the list of packages installed on the new system (they actually need |
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to be on the installing system, not the installed system), fixed a |
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pretty nasty bug regarding the new tree-based mirror selection screen |
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and started working on the ability to provide a custom kernel |
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configuration to the installer. |
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I'm having some connectivity problems for the past few days. I've |
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decided to switch to a different ISP, in the meantime I'm using my |
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mobile phone's data connection. Because I've already reached the |
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transfer limit, I'm only limited to HTTP, so unfortunately I can't |
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push my commits to overlays.gentoo.org :-(. However, I should receive |
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my new modem within a few days after the weekend, so I should be back |
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online soon. In the meantime I'll just work “secretly”. Because of |
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this, I can't log into my IRC session, so any questions are best |
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emailed to me. |
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* Coming up next * |
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I will continue working on the custom kernel and I'll look into an |
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automatic kernel configurer. I will also start working on a prototype |
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of an installer backend that will be independent of the actual |
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installer. Also, more testing is needed – once my connectivity issues |
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are solved, I will post the LiveDVD's URL and I'd encourage everyone, |
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especially those who can set up virtual machines, a spin and report |
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back any problems. |
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Have a good weekend, |
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~ wiktor. |
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