2.0 installer integration

Gergo Szakal bastyaelvtars at gmail.com
Thu May 24 07:42:28 PDT 2007


On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:30:36 -0400 (EDT)
"Justin C. Sherrill" <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:

> I can understand how it would be hard to match the installer with the
> web interface, as it depended on an interface abstraction that may
> not be present in the new version.  What keeps the installer from
> being reachable via SSH?

Our programming skills. :-) We can only h4x0r the pkgsrc and the lua
parts.

> 
> As far as testing goes, it would be neat to do this with a vkernel,
> but it doesn't sound completely feasible.  A virtual environment like
> vmware/parallels/qemu would do it.
> 
> Looking at
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/nrelease/Makefile?rev=1.63 -
> If you built pkgsrc packages of the new installer, and added it in
> the ".if defined(WITH_INSTALLER)" section, and changed
> PKGSRC_BOOTSTRAP_URL earlier in the file to point to the location
> where they are kept, along with copies of cdrecord and the bootstrap
> packages, you should have just what you need.
> 

Thanks, I will look.

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Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars at gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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