[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[Christopher Díaz Riveros]

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Good day devs and users:

A couple of months ago I shared with you a similar email about my personal
project. I'm very glad to say that I'm about to release the 'beta' in a couple
of weeks.

This beta version adds new stuff like:

 -experimental TUI interface: Right now it's only designed to enable a user to
launch the installer from any specific point from installation (selecting a step
from 11 different options). But it is easily scalable to add new windows and
steps into the TUI.

 -internationalization support: Right now installer works on English and
Spanish, it would be awesome if any dev with experience in German (Mein Deutsch
ist sehr verschlechtert und ich brauche viel Übung), or any other language that
you consider would be good to have in the installer.

 -installer now installs itself inside the new Gentoo system to avoid manual
installation inside the new Gentoo system. (Thanks to NP_Hardass for the idea)

Still on the TODO list:

 -next step will be to create an ebuild for installer, I may need some help
there but it should be pretty simple.

 -still some validations: installer error messages are quite hard to understand
if you are installing Gentoo for the first time (my fault), so I'll be working
on better error messages.

 -Ask if there is a way to add installer in the liveUSB so that people don't
need to install it manually in order to begin a Gentoo installation.

As last time, you can see the repo here:

https://github.com/ChrisADR/installer

Hope you have a great weekend,
-- 
Christopher Díaz Riveros
Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[Andrey Utkin]

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Hi,

First, my appreciation for your work!

I am not going to check it out myself, but I'd enjoy watching a
screencast, or at last a series of screenshots, of how it looks and
works.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[Christopher Díaz Riveros]

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El vie, 13-04-2018 a las 16:32 +0100, Andrey Utkin escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> First, my appreciation for your work!
> 
> I am not going to check it out myself, but I'd enjoy watching a
> screencast, or at last a series of screenshots, of how it looks and
> works.

That's a good idea Andrey :) Once I consider it stable and pretty enough to
release the official 0.1 version I'll attach a blog entry showing how to use it
on my gentoo blog ;)

Thanks,
-- 
Christopher Díaz Riveros
Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Christopher Díaz Riveros wrote:
> Still on the TODO list:
> 
>  -next step will be to create an ebuild for installer, I may need some help
> there but it should be pretty simple.
> 
>  -still some validations: installer error messages are quite hard to understand
> if you are installing Gentoo for the first time (my fault), so I'll be working
> on better error messages.
> 
>  -Ask if there is a way to add installer in the liveUSB so that people don't
> need to install it manually in order to begin a Gentoo installation.
Once it's a little further from the above (esp having a package), releng
can potentially include it in the release media (*cd-stage1).

Hopefully you have a very minimal set of dependencies for it, because
the installcd is quite slim (by gentoo media standards).

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personall Gentoo Installer project pre-beta release

[Christopher Díaz Riveros]

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El vie, 13-04-2018 a las 23:00 +0000, Robin H. Johnson escribió:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Christopher Díaz Riveros wrote:
> > Still on the TODO list:
> > 
> >  -next step will be to create an ebuild for installer, I may need some help
> > there but it should be pretty simple.
> > 
> >  -still some validations: installer error messages are quite hard to
> > understand
> > if you are installing Gentoo for the first time (my fault), so I'll be
> > working
> > on better error messages.
> > 
> >  -Ask if there is a way to add installer in the liveUSB so that people don't
> > need to install it manually in order to begin a Gentoo installation.
> 
> Once it's a little further from the above (esp having a package), releng
> can potentially include it in the release media (*cd-stage1).
> 
> Hopefully you have a very minimal set of dependencies for it, because
> the installcd is quite slim (by gentoo media standards).
> 

Yes, that was the first requirement for the project, it must keep as minimal as
possible.

I ended up having these runtime dependencies:

GNU tar (runtime)
Iputils (runtime)
GNU coreutils (runtime)
Bash (runtime)
Util-linux (runtime)
GNU grep (runtime)
Ncurses (runtime)

And it is written in Python with support for 3.4 onwards.

I think all those are already present in a cd-stage1 or stage3 :)

I'll polish some rough edges before packaging it, then I'll let you know when I
have a functional package in my overlay so that it can be reviewed too.
 
Regards and thanks,
-- 
Christopher Díaz Riveros
Gentoo Linux Developer
GPG Fingerprint: E517 5ECB 8152 98E4 FEBC  2BAA 4DBB D10F 0FDD 2547

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