On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:58 +0100, Pavol Rusnak wrote: > Hello all! > > Ubuntu came with nice feature called Migration Assistant. It helps > user to migrate documents and settings from another OS present on > system. Currently it supports Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux. We > imagined that it would be nice feature to have also in SUSE, so I began > investigating it. > > MA is set of command line utilities [1] and GUI frontend. Ubuntu's > frontend is tightly connected with their installer and can be seen for > example here [2]. > > [1] http://launchpad.net/migration-assistant/ > [2] http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blog&i=83 > > I built command line utilities in Build Service using some patches > from Mandriva and me, but the hardest task was to implement GUI that can > be used in SUSE. I was deciding between Qt application and YaST module. > Finally I decided for second option, because that way it can be easily > integrated into our installation process. After some hours and help > from Martin Vidner (thanks!) I finished this YaST module and put it > together with cmd-line tools into BuildService. > > I'm aware that this YaST module has bugs in it (it was my first YaST > module ever) and command line utils are not at their best also. :) But > please, if you are interested in this tool (and have for example > dual-boot with Windows or use more Linux instances on your computer), I > would be really glad if you test this piece of software and I'll be > looking forward to your feedback. Patches are of course welcome! :) > > Sources are available from BuildService project home:prusnak:migration, > where you can also find RPM packages built for your SUSE distribution: > > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Aprusnak%3Amigration > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/prusnak:/migration/ > > One known bug and you probably should be aware of it: tools import data > into /home/$USER , so YaST module should not be run as root. (Running as > root will import data into /home/root). I will deal with this later and > maybe solve this probably by adding combobox to select user in YaST when > running module as root. > > I would like to rewrite command line utilities from scratch, using C++ > in future. Currently they are written in pure C and the code is pretty > difficult to extend. I plan to use some kind of interfaces which will > allow to write import plugins. Also support for migrating system wide > settings could be nice (for example, various config files from /etc or > registry, copying binary wifi driver from Windows into ndiswrapper), but > MA can import only user settings right now. I'm open to any of your > ideas! :) >
I love it when people see a need and immediately set out and do something about it. Excellent work! --Jonathon Robison
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