[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personal Gentoo Installer project pre-alpha release

["Christopher Díaz Riveros" <chrisadr@gentoo.org>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2052 bytes --]

Good day devs, and users:

It's a pleasure to announce that my personal project is on a pre-alpha
stage. Let me explain some details:

'installer' is the code-name for my project, I'm preparing it as my
thesis project here in Perú. Right now 'installer' is on a prototype
phase, but is ready for some external testing to receive some feedback.

installer has two sub-commands:

	beginner: which is a tutorial-like program that explains all 		
the required steps to install a Gentoo system in a 		friendly
manner, it also enforces the reading of the 		Gentoo Handbook.

	generate: produces a stageX tarball. StageX contains some of 		
the needed files to install and configure Gentoo linux, 		right
now these files include:

			/etc/portage/*
			/etc/timezone
			/etc/locale.gen
			/var/lib/portage/world

Some of the TODOs include:

-Implement the --tui option, which will show all the beginner tutorial
on a ncurses based terminal user interface. (This feature may or may
not be finished, depending on the previous feedback)

-Create the ebuild to be able to download and install it from 	l
ayman or even the main tree.

-Add expert sub-command, which will guide a more experimented user with
some notations during the installation phase.

-Test and add many validations

If you like, you can download/clone/fork it from:

https://github.com/ChrisADR/installer

Please keep in mind that you'll need to install 'installer' both in the
host and in the new Gentoo system if you want to test it, you can do it
by downloading the tarball and running setup.py install.

 wget https://github.com/ChrisADR/installer/archive/v0.1.0-pre-alpha.ta
r.gz
 tar xf v0.1.0-pre-alpha.tar.gz
 cd v0.1.0-pre-alpha.tar.gz/
 python setup.py install

Installer is designed to work with Python 3.4 (since that's the stable
version right now).

Thank you for your time and help.

Best regards,
-- 
Christopher Díaz Riveros
Gentoo Linux Developer
GPG Fingerprint: E517 5ECB 8152 98E4 FEBC  2BAA 4DBB D10F 0FDD 2547

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 636 bytes --]