On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:08:10AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: -snip- > > Should I add it to CVS ? > > I would like to see the approach better integrated with the > distribution first. Once we check it into CVS, you can assume that > the user already has a basic Unattended installation around; no need > to check out another one. > > Random thoughts, in no particular order... > > We should integrate this logic into linuxboot/Makefile. Create > linuxboot/buildroot which will function as the chroot environment. > Create linuxboot/buildroot/src (or maybe call it "download" or "dl") > to hold the source packages which we download. Rename "make download" > to "make prepare", which will download the Debian packages and other > packages to set up the buildroot. Have the top-level Makefile use > "chroot" when building the packages.
Ok, sounds good, but I'll have to dive in Makefile documentation first. (makefile newbie :) > So we would still have two stages, one which requires the network > (downloading) and one which does not (building). > > Eliminate the dependency on bofh.be and check sarge.unattended in > directly (obviously). > > One thing which bothers me is running everything as root. Building > everything runs an awful lot of code from an awful lot of places; as > little as possible should run as root. (With our current environment, > root access is not required at all, and I rather like it that way.) > This may mean changing UIDs here and there. Or maybe we can use user > mode Linux :-). Indeed, running it as a user is safer, I'm a bit busy this week to look further into it, will be something for this or next weekend. And now something completely else, I think it would be useful to add 7za (7-zip standalone executable) to z:\bin\ (e.g. for emacs.bat and other future compressed packages) if no-one opposes, I'll add it ;) --Wim ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
