[gentoo-soc] Gentoo Anaconda progress report: 2011-06-26

[wiktor w brodlo]

Hi Gentooers!

*Intro*

Gentoo Anaconda is a fork of Sabayon Anaconda which is a fork of
Fedora/Red Hat Anaconda. Anaconda is an installer for Linux disros,
originally for Fedora/RH but now it's distro-independent and many
other distros use it as their installer. Sabayon is a binary distro
based on Gentoo.

*Progress so far*

The most important thing that happened this week was that I've managed
to prepare Anaconda's internal environment for Portage. On the
installation screen I have replaced the screenshots with a vte
terminal in which any emerges to be done will be run. This is to help
the user get familiar with emerge's output as well as allows the user
to follow what's happening. The Entropy class and dependency has been
replaced with a Portage class which simply interfaces with emerge.
I have also managed to finalise branding, so that nothing in the
installer says “Sabayon”.

In the coming week I have to troubleshoot some problems that have
arisen due to the removal of Entropy. This shouldn't take too long as
on the higher level nothing has changed, only the backends. The next
thing for this week is adding more screens to the installer and
rearranging the screens so that they follow the order given in the
Handbook. I will also want to edit the screens so they refer to
specific pages of the handbook so the user may read up on them if they
wish (though that's probably going to be left until the second term as
it's not essential). If time allows, I will start coding the new
actions, otherwise I'll start that next week.

Yes, I still believe I can implement my proposal on time ;-)

Cheers,
~ wiktor.