On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 16:15, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:12, Erich Titl wrote: > > - Let's try to build the configurator in a modular way, someone on the list > > suggested to build kind of plugin to a generic configuration webpage which > > would have to be implementd in each package. I think this is an excellent > > idea and we should try to write specs for the interface. The developers and > > maintainers of the current distributions/packages will certainly be the > > most valuable resource. > > Everyone, > If we're considering a change to our .lrp package structure, I strongly > suggest an evaluation of "udeb" for the new format. This would allow us > to piggyback off of Debian installer package development. They already > have udpkg, netcfg, niccfg, busybox, ash, etc. They even have a stripped > down apt-get called anna. > I like the idea a lot, especially the hardware detection and network configuration, but I see a few problems:
- udpkg doesn't support repacking the packages. This could be added of course. - udpkg needs ar, and the busybox ar doesn't _create_ archives, so we would need GNU ar for backing up packages, unless we use a modified udeb package format. - The Debian boot floppies seem to be based on (a stripped down) glibc-2.2, which would be a problem for floppy based systems. - The ash from the Debian boot floppies doesn't support commandline history/editing AFAIK. Ewald Wasscher ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel