From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20049 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 22:37:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Jan 2004 22:37:35 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmKn1-0003JN-OB for arch-gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:37:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 4873 invoked by uid 50004); 29 Jan 2004 22:29:50 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-installer-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25720 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 22:29:50 +0000 From: Dan Armak Reply-To: danarmak@gentoo.org Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:29:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.50 References: <20040129175118.GY22870@mail.lieber.org> <200401292111.19773.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200401292111.19773.pauldv@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-03=_MlYGAEZZFnW6ALJ"; charset="iso-8859-8-i" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401300029.38573.danarmak@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] summary of IRC conversation X-Archives-Salt: 69d15c0f-423a-46ab-93e1-adfc9cd4143b X-Archives-Hash: c6164b1932e39c4d1f0d0eb6b53cbde3 --Boundary-03=_MlYGAEZZFnW6ALJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8-i" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 29 January 2004 22:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2004 18:51, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > So, thoughts? > > I think we must focus on what kind of installer we are going to work. Do = we > want an installer that can be used for automated installs (in which this > would be a great idea), or do we want an interactive installer for single > installs (where splitscreen console access is valueable). Or do we want > both? > > If we want both, how are we going to integrate that. Can the backend > perform partial scripts? Further how would it integrate with generic gent= oo > confiration tools? Can the BE support pausing after every step if the FE requests it? Would th= at=20 be enough to allow an interactive process? The FE can provide a console=20 between steps if it wants. BTW the status updates the BE emits include (if requested) the output of th= e=20 commands it runs (esp. compiles), right? =2D-=20 Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key =46ingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 --Boundary-03=_MlYGAEZZFnW6ALJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAGYlLUI2RQ41fiVERAr60AJ9VYM2H2xdJDPDa8f1bpY9H4Ip81ACcCYkH zUUfuOsJz4RVUFKkdrEbu78= =hfpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-03=_MlYGAEZZFnW6ALJ--