[Debian-np-devel] What are we missing?

[Benj. Mako Hill]

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On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:31:32PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
>  - Can we custom-configure packages?  I don't know.
>     - What is the status with CDDs wrt configurations?

AFAIK, and I haven't looked into it ton too much depth, joeyh has done
some work in terms of documenting the process of preseeding d-i and
debconf. I think we could run with this, at the very least. That's the
very simple solution.

I think that ideally, it would pared with at least some minimal
amount of work with something like cfengine. This is something that I
don't have a lof of experience with and was not able to pay as much
attention to in Porto Alegre as I would have liked to.

>     - Is there something working that also allows decent upgrading?

I have no idea. :-/

>  - Is the installer working?  I don't know.

Do you mean di upstream?=20

>     - What is still missing that is really necessary?
>     - What are the custom questions we want to add?
>     - What are the installer questions that we want to pre-answer?

Ok, I know we can do this with a configuration file. I suspect it's
the same or similar process for preseeding stuff. Joey had something
on his blog about this las week.

>  - Can we build CDs?  I don't know.
>     - What are we missing?
>     - How are sarge CDs built anyway?

I have yet to make a d-i but as I'm sure folks on this list can attest
to (as other people Iv'e heard from that are no on this list will
attest to as well) it's *hard.*

> Another magic phrase I've been hearing recently is:
>=20
>  "this would be cool, but too much for 1.0: let's postpone it to 1.1"
>=20
> I think that if we put the two magic phrases together, we have a
> very good chance of releasing something great together with Sarge,
> or even IN Sarge :)

I'm 100% in making a push for this and will help out where I can.

Regards,
Mako


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Benjamin Mako Hill
mako@debian.org
http://mako.yukidoke.org/


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