From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1173 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2004 02:30:44 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Apr 2004 02:30:44 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BJ1Jx-00017P-Sn for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:30:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 2662 invoked by uid 50004); 29 Apr 2004 02:30:41 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10632 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2004 02:30:41 +0000 From: Nathaniel McCallum To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1083205525.8092.6.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> References: <20040428233335.GS13780@mail.lieber.org> <20040428173653.87B6E283C0@meep.gentoo.org> <20040429015811.70242e7d@snowdrop.home> <1083201576.8839.17.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <40906502.3070607@gentoo.org> <1083205525.8092.6.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083205752.8093.10.camel@aquinas.natemccallum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5.7 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:29:13 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Gentoo 2004.1 Release X-Archives-Salt: 6cb30371-36fd-4661-8c10-893c63d3c559 X-Archives-Hash: e32676645e515ee547262d6b0fb52c9c I just had another thought... would it be possible to impliment genkernel as an eclass? or perhaps split off related functions into a "library" and have both an eclass and a command line implimentation? I know I'm thinking big, but it is something that could really help. Nathaniel On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 22:25 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > Just a quick perspective from the Gentoo-Installer project... NOT having > a full binary installation for us it not an option. We ARE providing > users with the ability to use the installer to do a stage one install. > HOWEVER, we should also be able to have a system up and running in under > an hour. This brings me to a thought I've had for a while: with > genkernel working so well, we should be able to provide binary kernel > packages. Let me put it this way... > > In the ebuild for kernels there should be a flag (unfortunately "build" > is already taken) that once downloading and installing kernel source > code it builds a binary kernel with genkernel. Then, if you make a > binary package of the kernel ebuild it could install not only the source > but a pre-built kernel as well. We could then provide a few default > binary kernels with the GRP release. Eventually, when gentoo tools get > a little better (we may actually work on this as a subset of Gentoo > Installer, we could even auto configure boot info (grub, lilo, etc...). > If this is the case, we could get a full system install into under half > an hour, which would be of GREAT benefit to both desktop users and > enterprise users. > > Just my $.02. > > Nathaniel > > > -- > gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list