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. -- Michael J. Flickinger _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
