Re: Live CD for FOSDEM?

[Quentin Mathé]

Hello,

Le 27 janv. 08 à 23:28, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf a écrit :

> Am 27.01.2008 um 21:37 schrieb Stefan Bidigaray:
>
> > On Jan 27, 2008 1:31 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de 
> > > wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > has there anyone a Live CD ready (or nearly ready - I am willing to
> > beta test) for FOSDEM?
> >
> > … /me stares in the general direction of the étoilé folks …
> >
> > is there anything in the works?
> >
> >
> > If I remember correctly, from the many times I've read the Etoile  
> > mailing list archives, they aren't going to be making a LiveCD  
> > anytime in the near future.
>
> Why that? Last year they had one almost ready - what happened to  
> that one?


The FOSDEM 2007 livecd was a temporary solution. It was based on an  
outdated Ubuntu version and more importantly was difficult to update  
by not being generated with a script. So it wasn't a viable solution  
in the long run.
I began writing a new livecd solution from scratch in April or May of  
last year. This solution is based on a set of scripts and allows to  
automatically generate a new livecd by typing a single command.
However I decided to give up temporarily few months later for various  
reasons. The testing of the scripts was very time-consuming. I  
discovered that Étoilé set up script has to be rewritten and I also  
don't know sh very well. I had to choose between spending a lot of  
time on this livecd and working on other important Étoilé stuff.
These livecd scripts are 80 % done, they mostly need testing to work  
as expected and refinements. They don't depend on Étoilé, so it should  
be very easy to customize them to generate a GNUstep livecd by  
skipping Étoilé related stuff. If anybody is interested to work on  
them, I would be glad to help.

You can find these scripts and utility resources here: <http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/trunk/Etoile/LiveCD/ 
>

Cheers,
Quentin.