Re: Install Concept

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:47 pm, Filip Brcic wrote:
> Дана Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:54, Alfred M. Szmidt је написао(ла):
> >    I think the best bet would be to create the scriptable installer.
> >
> > Problem with that is getting someone to write the code and _test_ the
> > code.  We don't exactly have many people to do such work.  If there
> > are people willing to work on a new installer, then that is great, but
> > if there aren't, we will have to use a already existing one (which
> > might not be a bad thing).
>
> If we would use an existing installer, I would suggest anaconda. It is
> originaly made by redhat (for rpm), but it has been ported to deb and to
> conary. I don't think that it would be too hard to port to gnu package
> managment system.
>
> The real question is how will the gnu packages look like. If the stowfs is
> the choice, then the packages would most probably be some kind of tarballs
> (or as in .deb, ar archive with .targz data and targz metadata). It is not
> too hard to create something that would build & install such packages, but
> the package structure should be determined first. At least I would say
> so...

I don't like Anacoda much, it seems to be large and runs on python.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/

I'll have a little more free time coming up soon, I'll start hacking on a 
custom installer.  I really can't find any simple installer that exists.

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Michael J. Flickinger