Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSoC: Create a Web-based Gentoo image builder

[Erick Michau <erick.michau@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

Depending on your approach you might eventually be interested in a similar
tool called metro available at http://wiki.github.com/funtoo/metro
It provides similar features at certain levels and noticeable differences
too. It currently builds stable and unstable gentoo stages. Reading through
gives some knowledge about building stages.

It sounds like a very exciting project and the first questions that pop up
to my mind are: how would one interface catalyst/metro with a website? is
there any already existing similar framework? How much space would the
server require for how many concurrent users building stage1->3 all at the
same time?

I have no clue as for the answers but it really feels like an interesting
challenge.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> Eugen Serban wrote:
> > I would like to approach this idea for the GSoC 2009.
>
> That's an interesting idea.
>
>
> > Can anyone help with some "how to"s or a forum or something like
> > that where I can learn more about Catalyst?
>
> Not really.
>
>
> > I am not very familiar with it.
>
> You should start using it. Build five or ten stages. Pick a hardware
> that you want to build for, and start from the example stage spec
> files installed together with catalyst.
>
> You will need good knowledge and understanding of Gentoo, portage,
> USE flags and so on, to quickly absorb most of what catalyst is
> about.
>
>
> //Peter
>
>

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