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Dear 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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I'm slowly working through the list I've posted in the pre-midterm |
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report. I've already removed some dependencies and some dead code from |
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the codebase, added a nice graphical banner on the installer, showing |
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the current chapter and a link to the appropriate page in the |
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handbook. I've made some of the screens prettier as well. Now the |
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installer doesn't need as much space on the ramdisk, because it's |
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smaller – but there's still A LOT of slimming to be done :-) |
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Over the weekend I'll *try* to build a LiveDVD with the installer on |
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it, but I can't promise I'll be able to do it over the weekend or at |
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all. If I don't find time over the weekend, I'll try it next week. |
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* Coming up next * |
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First of all, a big version bump. A lot of dependencies are quite |
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aged, and I'd like to try to bump them to newer versions. There are |
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also some improved ebuilds in the Sabayon overlay, I'll import them |
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into the Anaconda overlay. Some new rules have appeared with respect |
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to the EAPI use and I'll need to make sure the ebuilds conform to |
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these new rules. Apart from that, I'm sure there are more dependencies |
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to go, and I know for a fact that there's a lot of code waiting to be |
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removed from the codebase. I'll also continue with prettifying the |
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screens, one of the most important changes is to use a tree structure |
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for the mirror selection screen (for now it's just an ugly list). I |
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don't know how to create tree views in GTK+/Glade, so I'll need to |
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look that up ;-). If I still have time by the end of the week, I'll |
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implement validation to warn the user if they've entered invalid |
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settings (the new screens have no error checking yet). |
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See you later! |
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~ wiktor. |
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