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- cdebconf [Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>, |
Done this week: |
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Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>] |
- udebs are flooding into sid |
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- udpkg [Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>] |
- demo3 is a chrooted demo system |
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- main menu [Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>] |
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer/ |
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- more detailed design docs that other people besides Joey Hess can |
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understand [Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org and debian-boot] |
Where we are: |
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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 |
Now that we have a chrooted system, it's time to start seriously looking at |
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succeeded (a disk was partitioned, but very badly, and installing |
the size of the d-i base system. library reduction and trimming down |
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the base system to it fails), there is no way to force the user |
busybox need to be done soon. It's also time to start writing the modules |
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to back up. This seems to preclude linear install mode. I posted |
that are actual components of the installer, like the disk partitioner, the |
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a longer example to -boot. Three possible fixes: |
disk formatter, etc, etc. |
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- Detect loops, and have code to figure out what went wrong |
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and back up to the appropriate step that can fix it |
Still Todo: |
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- Detect loops, and back up to the beginning of the menu |
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- Detect whenever any menu item fails, and leave linear |
- design [Joey Hess, debian-boot] |
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mode. (BEST) |
80% done. Enough to know what the big peices are |
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- Items on the main menu should be able to specify that they depend |
and how they fit together. |
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on some package being configured. If it is not, they are not the |
- cdebconf (miniature debconf in C) [Randolph Chung, Anthony Towns] |
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default. There are several ways to do this.. |
In progress, has one working database backend and one |
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- Need to define module subsystems for network/hardware support, |
working text-based frontend, with progress on a ncurses |
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network configuration, target media support, etc. |
frontend. |
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- Cobble together a demonstration system that can install onto some very |
- udpkg (tiny dpkg clone) [Randolph Chung, Joey Hess] |
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limited set of machines, in some very limited fashion. Here are the |
Usable. One todo item (localized descriptions) |
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things we would need for such a system: |
- main-menu (main menu generator) [Joey Hess] |
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- mini-debconf |
90% done (one non-trivial todo item) |
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- one debconf ui |
- busybox integration [Erik Andersen] |
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- one retreiver and whatever it depends on |
First pass busybox udeb available. |
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- main menu |
- netkit-tiny [UNCLAIMED] |
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- disk partitioner |
http://oss.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/netkit-tiny/ |
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- disk formatter |
ifconfig is needed at least by netcfg |
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- base system extractor |
- network card detector [Glenn McGrath, David Whedon] |
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- lilo setup |
Pcidetect is written, detects PCI cards only. Needs |
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- reboot |
testing. David has another detector that uses libdetect |
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instead. |
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- other hardware detection [David Whedon] |
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David has written detectors for sound, ethernet, cd, cpu, |
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disk, and memory detection. All need testing. |
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- netcfg [David Whedon] |
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Development in progress, and partly works now. |
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- anna (retreiver control program) [Joey Hess, Glenn McGrath] |
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About 10% done realistically, but it does work. |
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- choose-mirror [Joey Hess] |
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75% done |
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- http retriever [Joey Hess] |
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Works, needs testing and proxy support. |
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- target media detector [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Just has to figure out what media to install to. |
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Probably trivial; most support already in the kernel. |
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- disk partitioner [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Some kind of a UI to let the user partition their |
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disks and decide what the partitions are used for. |
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- disk formatter [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Formats disks, turns on swap, etc. |
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- base system installer [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Installs the base system, probably from base.tgz |
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for now, and does any necessary setup. |
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- {lilo,grub} installer [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Sets up {lilo,grub}. |
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- kernel module udebs [Vaidhy] |
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Not started. We will need various sets of kernel modules; |
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one such set is NIC drivers. Each set goes in a udeb; there |
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probably has to be a system to build the whole kernel and |
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udebs. |
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- library reduction [Marcus Brinkmann] |
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Not started. There is code in the boot-floppies that should |
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be usable, but this is still one of the hardest parts. |
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- install media build system [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Puts all the peices together and makes |
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install media. |
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- user documentation |
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Not started. (Waiting until we have something to document..) |
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- after-reboot configuration [Joey?] |
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Many packages that are currently set up by the |
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boot-floppies need to start handling their own setup, after |
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reboot, via debconf. These include timezone and clock config, |
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many of the things in base-config now, what else? |
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Other stuff: |
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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 |
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it succeeded (a disk was partitioned, but very badly, and |
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installing the base system to it fails), there is no way to |
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force the user to back up. This seems to preclude linear |
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install mode. I posted a longer example to -boot. Three |
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possible fixes: |
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- Detect loops, and have code to figure out what went |
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wrong and back up to the appropriate step that can |
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fix it |
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- Detect loops, and back up to the beginning of |
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the menu |
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- Detect whenever any menu item fails, and leave |
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linear mode. (BEST) |
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- Need to define module subsystems for network/hardware |
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support, network configuration, target media support, etc. |
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