On 9/7/07, Karen W. Tung <Karen.Tung at sun.com> wrote: > We are in the process of putting together the feature list for the > Distribution > Constructor project beyond the prototype release. The > proof-of-concept Distro Constructor has very limited functionalities as > specified our project page > (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Constructor/) > > We have come up with the following for the early 2008 release. > This is a very high level list of features. When we come to a more final > list, we will have further discussions about details on each item. > > * From a GUI, the user should be able to select a list of packages to > be included to build a custom distro. > > * From the command line, user provide the Distro Constructor (DC) with > a list of packages. The DC will pull in all other necessary > packages > to create a self-consistent installation image. > > * Given an existing distribution, the DC will create a new > distribution > based on addition or subtraction of contents as specified by the > user. > > * Special configurations specified in the GUI or on the command line > can be saved to a file, and the file can be used as inputs to the > DC. > > * The DC release will come with a few predefined "useful" > configurations, which can be helpful to users who want to create > their > custom distribution with some minor modification. > > Features not to be included in the early 2008 release, but will be > consider for the future. > > * Create a distribution based on an installed and configured system. > >
Will the created distro be Live? Anil
