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- cdebconf [Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>, |
Important things to do before preview release |
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Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>] |
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- udpkg [Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>] |
Following up on Anthony Town's mail "Chaos and Damnation!" |
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- main menu [Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>] |
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200304/msg00067.html |
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- more detailed design docs that other people besides Joey Hess can |
Here's a list of urgent things we need to do before issuing a preview |
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understand [Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org and debian-boot] |
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- The main menu design has some issues. If a step is failing |
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because some step above it did something wrong, but thought it |
* Unbreak netinst CDs |
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succeeded (a disk was partitioned, but very badly, and installing |
- Implement support in anna for installing different udebs for different |
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the base system to it fails), there is no way to force the user |
installation scenarios. [Martin Sjögren] |
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to back up. This seems to preclude linear install mode. I posted |
- File bugs on ftp.debian.org to clean up udeb priorities. |
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a longer example to -boot. Three possible fixes: |
- Decent order of menu items. It sucks to have the netcfg stuff appear |
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- Detect loops, and have code to figure out what went wrong |
above anna in the menu. |
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and back up to the appropriate step that can fix it |
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- Detect loops, and back up to the beginning of the menu |
* Finish partitioning/mkfs/mkswap/mount migration |
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- Detect whenever any menu item fails, and leave linear |
- Create libpartconf for partconf and friends. [Martin Sjögren] |
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mode. (BEST) |
- Implementing fstab hinting in partconf. |
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- Items on the main menu should be able to specify that they depend |
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on some package being configured. If it is not, they are not the |
* cdebconf |
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default. There are several ways to do this.. |
- Too long selection lists are cut short in the text frontend, and never |
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- Need to define module subsystems for network/hardware support, |
show up in the newt frontend. This has to be fixed. Probably a buffer |
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network configuration, target media support, etc. |
overflow somewhere. (#188043) |
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- Cobble together a demonstration system that can install onto some very |
- Fix the progress bars to play nicer with debootstrap. (#188243) |
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limited set of machines, in some very limited fashion. Here are the |
- Fix the space mangling. (#185014) |
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things we would need for such a system: |
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- mini-debconf |
* Localization |
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- one debconf ui |
- We need a proper fix for the newt frontend borders. TERM=xterm is too |
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- one retreiver and whatever it depends on |
much of a hack! Yes this is a UTF-8 problem. (#187704) |
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- main menu |
- We need a way to discover all/most of the glyphs needed by d-i. |
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- disk partitioner |
- We need find a way to load the missing glyphs into the linux |
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- disk formatter |
kernel console. (#188147) |
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- base system extractor |
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- lilo setup |
* HW detection |
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- reboot |
- We need to start using module names from kernel 2.4 instead of 2.2. |
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The fix is probably to migrate all scripts and programs to discover2. |
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* Editor |
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- We need a working editor to be able to debug the installer. |
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Nano needs a slang udeb to work (bugs #177405, #186292). |
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[Martin Sjögren has NMUed slang, it'll be in the archive any day now] |
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* Give base-installer a progress bar. Needs fixed progress bars. |
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* Split off hostname configuration from netcfg. |
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* Error handling. We need to make sure the user is told so when |
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something goes wrong. |
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The old TODO list, out of date (FIXME!) |
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Where we are: |
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We have a small chrooted system that is being autobuilt daily. |
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A few installations have been accomplished using floppy+net and |
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CD on i386. |
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General things to keep an eye on: |
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- All udeb packages should be able to build debug versions if |
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DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug". |
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- Udebs should not include .md5sum files. |
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- Make sure all udebs declare dependencies on everything they |
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depend on (this includes depending on ash, busybox, etc). The |
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dependency web is pretty spotty right now. |
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- Remember to run debconf-updatepo in package's debian/ dir after |
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changing original text in English templates so the translations |
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get updated and translators can do their work easier. |
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- Keep this progress file up-to-date as you complete various parts |
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of it. |
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Status for different parts of debian-installer. The numbers are |
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approximate (as in +/- 50%) and may change in any direction, at any |
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time. |
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[0%] - Not begun |
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- Some kind of a machanism for udebs to declare what parts of |
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busybox they need, so we can ensure that all deps are met while |
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keeping the busybox footprint small. |
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Packages depending on base-installer should use the |
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utilities in /target so we can keep busybox's size down. |
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- polish everything so it is actually usable |
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- translations |
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(Waiting until there is i18n and final text to translate, |
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and until we have figured out where the translations go.) |
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- user documentation |
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(Waiting until we have something to document..) |
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- GUI frontend to cdebconf. There has been talk about using |
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gtk-fb as a frontend to cdebconf, but so far nobody has |
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actually gotten anything working well. [Michael Cardenas?] |
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some people have talked about using Qtopia as well, but |
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AFAIK, no work has been done there. |
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[30%] - Might need large rewrites. Current implementation might |
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work by accident |
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- netcfg [David Whedon] |
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Working, pending rewrite for IPv6 and multiple devices |
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support. |
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- busybox integration [Erik Andersen] |
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TODO: seems we need touch, head, sort, and wc back on for |
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debootstrap. |
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- i18n [Denis Barbier, Tollef Fog Heen] |
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Works in cdebconf, we need to make sure all templates |
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are in UTF8 and make the frontends handle UTF8 in a |
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sane way. |
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- disk selector, partitioner [Raphael Hertzog, Raphael Hertzog] |
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There are two of them, autopartkit and partkit. |
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Autopartkit is a bit more advanced ATM. |
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[60%] - Needs some work, but does its grunt work |
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- {lilo,grub} installer [Moshe Zadka, Tollef Fog Heen] |
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moshez has a preliminary lilo-installer package in |
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tools/lilo-installer, and a pre-preliminary grub-installer |
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package in grub-installer. lilo-installer seems to |
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work. grub-installer seems to work. |
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- disk formatter |
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Formats disks, turns on swap, etc. mkfs is in udeb |
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format, but nothing calls it. swap is not begun. |
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- base system installer [Anthony Towns, Tollef Fog Heen] |
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debootstrap is stable, and has quite good support in |
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base-installer |
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- archive setup |
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Mostly done, we probably want to separate testing and |
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unstable at some point. |
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- cdebconf [Randolph Chung] |
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In progress, has multiple working database backends |
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and one working text-based frontend, with progress on |
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a slang frontend. Quite usable by now. |
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- design [Joey Hess, debian-boot] |
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80% done. Enough to know what the big pieces are |
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and how they fit together. |
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- install media build system [David Whedon] |
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We can build chrootable, library-reduced trees. It |
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boots too. CD-ROM build system might some work. |
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- dhcp [Matt Kraai] |
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We're using dhclient, but should keep an eye on udhcpc, |
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which is smaller. We need to decide on one dhcp |
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client. |
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- floppy retriever [Martin Sjögren] |
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Seems to work, at least for the time being. |
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[90%] - Single missing important feature or bug. |
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- anna (retriever control program) [Martin Sjögren] |
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Works, mostly. Needs support for Releases files. |
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Support for signed Release files would be cool, but |
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needs gpgv-udeb. |
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- main-menu (main menu generator) [Martin Sjögren, Joey Hess] |
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- support for multiple provides are missing. |
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- what happens when one step fails? |
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- choose-mirror [Joey Hess] |
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works, needs some polish and merging of ftp/http |
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questions. |
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[100%] - Those shouldn't need to be touched any more |
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(except for wishlist features) |
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- udpkg (tiny dpkg clone) [Randolph Chung, Joey Hess] |
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May be replaced with busybox dpkg. |
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- cd installs |
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Works mostly. |
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- kernel-package integration [Herbert Xu] |
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Udebs are built automatically; this is well in hand. |
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- net retriever [Joey Hess] |
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Seems to work. FTP support missing. |
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- cdrom retriever [Raphael Hertzog] |
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Working |
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- ethdetect [David Whedon] |
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Working |
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- library reduction |
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mklibs.py works, and is packaged, and used by the |
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build process. |
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- generate treecompare data for each daily build and put or mail it |
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somewhere [Joey Hess] |
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http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer/ |
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- post-reboot configuration [Joey Hess] |
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base-cofig is stable, though stuff may need to be added to |
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it to handle things d-i doesn't bother with. i18n is |
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needed. |
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Maybe, if somebody picks it up: |
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- skinnable/themeable installer |
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