From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OjbRm-0004tN-EI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:20:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 552CCE0A81; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95351E0A7E for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws15 with SMTP id 15so952484vws.40 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.123.33 with SMTP id n33mr229876vcr.204.1281633566032; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Sender: lxnay@sabayonlinux.org Received: by 10.220.48.106 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:19:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100807211559.GB21345@linux1> <201008121113.52775.bangert@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:19:25 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GomMVhZmF3LLrChvQl1KRmiNNt4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project From: Fabio Erculiani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 09f0e82f-c876-495c-8bcf-48d769f241fc X-Archives-Hash: a6b454c951d2bf9c6c20bd7dfe11e7dd On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on >> thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation >> process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? >> Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? >> 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations >> would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' >> image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) >> 2) Has anyone looked at just taking an existing installation framework >> (d-i? kickstart?) and just making it run different stuff? =C2=A0I honest= ly >> have not looked at either (someone else at work does that thank god) >> but it can't be outside of the realm of impossibility... > > i dont particularly care what installer we utilize, it'd just be nice > to have a helpful gui/curses based approach available as an option. =C2= =A0i > have toyed with anaconda in the past, but my personal experience has > been that our gui python one was better. =C2=A0that and the insistence on > redhat-only tools (like rpm) is obnoxious. > -mike RPM dependency has been moved to the yum module inside anaconda and it's not required anymore. > > --=20 Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org