On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Andrew David Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-02-04 15:10, Oleg Artemiev wrote: >>> This is a good time to mention that we're in need of an HCL >>> maintainer. Our longtime volunteer HCL maintainer, Zrubi, no >>> longer has the time to do it. We all owe Zrubi a debt of >>> gratitude for keeping up this thankless task for so long! :) >>> Any volunteers? >> Why not to just script-out this once and forget? >> >> source information: email from someone, output information -> some >> file to put on the web? > Some stuff still had to be edited manually, but it could indeed be > automated better. Can you help us with that? :D I'm interested in helping automate this. Though can't claim that it will be fast.
Could you, please, point me into what is already automated (repo + path) and related brief dox on how execution is done currently (if any)? My idea how it should look like: a special qubes image: *. preinstalled on some usb stick *. has only a preconfigured VMs: netVM, firefwallVM, user interface is not required. Dom0 has a script in startup scripts that: *. runs HCL *. updates HCL file: old data copied somewhere inside dom0 for user reference *. copies file to net VM, VM has a script: *. checks for HCL file to be present eache minute *. checks that internet is available *. makes a gui request to a user to fill required manual fields (model as the store names it, user name(optional), and so on) *. once confirned - sends HCL file to specially assigned emaili at qubes.org Qubes web: *. A sctipt on qubes.org updates some HCL html in predefined format PS: I would prefer just a single HCL usb stick run, that boots, asks user for input 'seller named model as' and mail result automatically (now or later if at runtime we had no internet) - no user interface except this, GUI is optional, all Dom0/VM made in a single place in modified Dom0, but that is against architecture and making such an image may require much more work than scripting this as a chain of small scripts + preconfigured VMs. BTW: I'd like such an thing also for old versions of Qubes OS - sooner or later we will face usual store that some hardware is okay w/ old Qubes but too slow with new. Alternatively we could have a special preconfigured VM image that does all VM part above, but require user filling HCL to activate manually. -- Bye.Olli. gpg --search-keys grey_olli , use key w/ fingerprint below: Key fingerprint = 9901 6808 768C 8B89 544C 9BE0 49F9 5A46 2B98 147E Blog keys (the blog is mostly in Russian): http://grey-olli.livejournal.com/tag/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CABunX6OFbEzXnqpUOVXJx%2B%3DhCJwhy27KG6Z6tP%2BQyohfT4S4Lg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
