Re: [gentoo-user] Project:Installer

[J.Rutkowski]

Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? 
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J. Rutkowski

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, at 12:25 PM, James wrote:
>
> From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting.
> However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think
> I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that
> LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most
> curious to read other folk's ideas (strategies) to create a more
> automated installation semantic for installing gentoo systems. The
> handbook
> is fine; in fact it is great. But, many gentoo users that have performed
> more than a dozen gentoo installs sooner or later get around to their own
> installations customizations for a wide variety of valid reasons.
>
>
> Ansible would lend itself to expanded and very targeted types of system
> installs where an accomplished gentoo user could supplement the base
> install
> with a collection of specific packages and config settings; imho. Say for
> example a secure web or mail server, not that it would be the only
> way to build such a server, but just one specific method a particular
> author
> wanted to (share) publish. Surely there are other and better ideas that
> folks have used or that they are currently contemplating for routine
> gentoo
> installs?
>
>
> Maybe some discussion herein could help shape the efforts of [2,3]?
>
>
> Naturally, we should remember Release Engineering and their role
> as pivotal [3]. [1 and 2] are interesting to read.
>
>
> James
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo
>
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer
>
> [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS
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