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Done this week: |
Things we really should fix before rc2: |
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- retriever controller (aka "anna", for anna's not nearly apt) is |
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started, and works in a limited way, good enough for demo purposes. |
- base-config's broken hwclock display #264314 |
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- file retriever, which is the simplest possible retriever (it just |
(fixed in unstable, fix not yet in testing) |
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symlinks a file, rather like apt's file method). |
- base-config's broken translations mess up mirror selection |
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- cdebconf now has a working frontend, and is usable. |
(fixed in 2.42, fix not yet in testing) |
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- basic demo system, in which you can use the main menu to tell anna to |
- tasksel/aptitude problem that prevents installation of standard |
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retrieve and unpack some more udebs, then see them appear on the main |
packages |
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menu. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0011/msg00629.html |
(fixed in aptitude 0.2.15.6-0.sarge3 in t-p-u) |
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- first stab at a busybox udeb. |
- aptitude bug that prevents tasks from working in some locales |
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- choose-mirror, a configuration tool for http/ftp/other retreivers has |
(#264716) |
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been started, but needs a lot of work. |
(apparently fixed in aptitude 0.2.15.6-0.sarge3 in t-p-u) |
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- netcfg issues with bad MTU data from dhcp server |
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Still Todo: |
(fixed in svn) |
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- fix sparc CDs, old mkisofs generates invalid images |
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- design [Joey Hess, debian-boot] |
- partman confuses identically sized partitions (#241785, grave) |
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80% done. Enough to know what the big peices are |
- new hotplug is needed in testing to fix watchdog and framebuffer |
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and how they fit together. |
module load issues (0.0.20040329-14 fixes it) |
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- udeb archive setup [James Troup, Anthony Towns, Jason Gunthorpe] |
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95% support in new package pools code. James is now waiting |
Things that would be nice for rc2, but can't block it: |
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for after 2.1r2, it seems. |
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- cdebconf (miniature debconf in C) [Randolph Chung, Anthony Towns] |
- partman-efi, for reasonable setup of EFI partition on ia64 |
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In progress, has one working database backend and one |
(uploaded, needs testing, and propigation to testing) |
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working text-based frontend. |
- gdm locale problems on reboot (#265101) |
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- udpkg (tiny dpkg clone) [Randolph Chung, Joey Hess] |
- gnome-session needs update in testing, so users log into gnome, |
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Usable. One todo item (localized descriptions) |
and not kde, from gdm (2.6.2-5 fixes it) |
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- main-menu (main menu generator) [Joey Hess] |
- partman misdetects some partitions as type loop (#249371, grave) |
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90% done (one non-trivial todo item) |
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- busybox integration [Erik Andersen] |
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First pass busybox udeb is ready. |
This TODO list can only touch on some larger issues, but there are a great |
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http://people.debian.org/~andersee/ |
many open bugs on various components of the installer. See all bugs tagged |
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- network card detector [Glenn McGrath, David Whedon] |
d-i in the BTS. Also, there are many unprocessed installation-reports bugs. |
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Pcidetect is written, detects PCI cards only. Needs |
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testing. David has another detector that uses libdetect |
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instead. |
Status for different parts of debian-installer. The numbers are |
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- other hardware detection [David Whedon] |
approximate (as in +/- 50%) and may change in any direction, at any |
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David has written detectors for sound, ethernet, cd, cpu, |
time. |
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disk, and memory detection. All need testing. |
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- network setup [UNCLAIMED] |
[0%] Not begun |
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Not started. Set up the network, via dhcp or via prompting; |
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implementor decides. |
- some architectures |
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- retreiver control program [Joey Hess, Glenn McGrath] |
hurd-i386 (we will ship w/o this) |
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About 10% done realistically, but it does work. |
sh (we will ship w/o this) |
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- file retreiver [Joey Hess] |
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100% done, such as it is. Probably not useful in real life |
[30%] Might need large rewrites. Current implementation might |
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expcet in CD installs, but handy for the demo system. |
work by accident |
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- choose-mirror [Joey Hess] |
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Nearly 50% done, but entirely untested. |
- GUI frontend to cdebconf. |
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- http retreiver [UNCLAMED] |
There are some basic implementations. The trick is to make |
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Not started. Download udebs, other files from network. |
it a GUI that does not suck, while still using debconf |
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- target media detector [UNCLAIMED] |
underneath. |
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Not started. Just has to figure out what media to install to. |
- ppp support |
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Probably trivial; most support already in the kernel. |
Not as important for analog dialup, as for ISDN, pppoe. |
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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. |
[60%] Needs some work, but does its grunt work |
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- disk formatter [UNCLAIMED] |
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Not started. Formats disks, turns on swap, etc. |
- I18N |
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- base system installer [UNCLAIMED] |
Mostly done, still filling in minor holes. |
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Not started. Installs the base system, probably from base.tgz |
- translations |
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for now, and does any necessary setup. |
Varying languages translated to varying degrees. |
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- {lilo,grub} installer [UNCLAIMED] |
http://people.debian.org/~seppy/d-i/translation-status.html |
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Not started. Sets up {lilo,grub}. |
- boot loader installers (lilo, grub, etc) |
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- kernel module udebs [Vaidhy] |
Work, except for when they don't. See BTS. |
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Not started. We will need various sets of kernel modules; |
- anna |
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one such set is NIC drivers. Each set goes in a udeb; there |
Works, mostly. Needs support for Release files. |
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probably has to be a system to build the whole kernel and |
Support for signed Release files would be cool, but |
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udebs. |
needs gpgv-udeb. |
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- library reduction [Marcus Brinkmann] |
Needs to have load-installer properly split out of the anna |
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Not started. There is code in the boot-floppies that should |
binary to save space on root floppy. Or removed, not used |
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be usable, but this is still one of the hardest parts. |
anymore. |
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- install media build system [UNCLAIMED] |
- disk selector, partitioner |
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Not started. Puts all the peices together and makes |
We have switched to partman everything except a couple of |
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install media. |
subarches and s390. |
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- bugreporter-udeb |
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only supports saving to floppy, which many lack |
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should offer a way to save via network or to usb stick |
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- post-reboot configuration |
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base-config is stable, though it could use more polish |
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i18n is needed. |
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Some questions repeat questions from d-i. |
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- web site |
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ |
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Could be better laid out, lacking some sections, other |
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parts are quite good. |
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- archive integration |
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No automatic propagation to testing. |
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No source propagation for udeb sources! |
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- pcmcia support |
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Much improved, generally works now. |
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Automatic PCI resource range exclusion based on probing |
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still needed, work in progress. |
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- low memory support |
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Where "low" is 32-46 mb! |
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Works, but user must be careful to set up swap ASAP. |
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There is no sanity checking, and some bad failure modes. |
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Zboob's patch for ultra-lowmem needs work and is not yet |
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integrated. |
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- user documentation |
- user documentation |
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Not started. (Waiting until we have something to document..) |
Installation manual is up-to-date for i386. |
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Needs sanity checking for other architectures. |
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Translations need updates. |
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- developer documentation |
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We understand it, but casual hackers have a high barrier to |
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doing simple things like using a custom kernel. |
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- 2.6 support |
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Works on i386, with minor bugs. |
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Works on powerpc, at least newworld. Testing on |
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other subarches needed, especially G5 and oldworld (with |
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mkvmlinuz). |
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- some architectures |
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i386 |
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ia64 |
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powerpc |
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mips |
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SGI (mips/r4k-ip22 and mips/r5k-ip22) |
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- fix parted's DVH disk labels support (#239371) |
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- install dvhtool |
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Broadcom SWARM (mips/sb1-swarm-bn) |
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- Needs a working boot loader in the archive |
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Documentation, manual |
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XXX the above may be somewhat out of date |
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mipsel |
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DECstation (mipsel/r3k-kn02 and mipsel/r4k-kn04) |
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- cannot boot from CD (see end of #241231) |
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Cobalt (mipsel/cobalt) |
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- figure out whether to set link_in_boot=yes |
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(see trunk/packages/rootskel/debian/templates-arch) |
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- boot has to be ext2 -r 0 |
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- support installs via SSH, w/o serial console |
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- boot: use: execute rd_start=0x{initrd-start} rd_size=0x{initrd-size} console=ttyS0,{console-speed} |
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- debconf should output progess on the LCD |
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Documentation, manual |
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XXX the above may be somewhat out of date |
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m68k (some subarches) |
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alpha |
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sparc |
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arm (some subarches) |
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hppa |
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amd64 (unofficial) |
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s/390 |
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lowmem issues |
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On its first release, probably still some problems. |
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[90%] Single missing important feature or bug. |
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- hw-detect |
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Working but needs to be switched over to discover2 |
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- iso-scan |
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Works, but does not flag the disk the iso is mounted from |
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as unusable by the rest of the installer. |
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- netcfg |
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Working, pending rewrite for IPv6. |
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- bts |
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Still need a non-manual way to tag our bugs. |
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- language-chooser |
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The perennial problem is how to order/present the list of |
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languages. Many complaints, but it works. |
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- base system installer |
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It can break due to testing package churn. cdebootstrap |
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would fix this; also debootstrap/apt/archive changes in |
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progress to add Base: overrides to Packages files. |
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[100%] Those shouldn't need to be touched any more |
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(famous last words) |
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- udpkg |
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- cd installs |
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- net retriever |
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- cdrom retriever |
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- ethdetect |
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- cdebconf |
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- floppy retriever |
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- main-menu |
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- choose-mirror |
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- busybox integration |
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- install media build system |
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- kernel-package integration |
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- library reduction |
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- wireless support |
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Common problems and transitions |
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This is a list of common mistakes that need to be corrected throughout the |
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code base: |
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* All debconf commands that INPUT, GO, GET or SET questions should check |
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their return value. This is pure evil: |
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debconf->command(debconf, "GET", "mirror/suite", NULL); /* unchecked return code ! */ |
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asprintf(&command, "foo %s", debconf->value); |
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system(command); |
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* cdebconf's debconfclient.h has a set of macros for calling debconf |
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(debconf_get() and so on) |
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These should perhaps be used consistently throughout the code for |
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clarity. |
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* There needs to be a centralised logging method. Syslog will do, but |
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we currently have a lot of nasty code that appends messages to |
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/var/log/messages directly. All of that would be converted to pipe it |
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to logger. However, this is a problem, because piping a command to |
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logger loses the exit status of the command. Need some way to run a |
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command, logging the ouput to syslog, w/o losing exit status. |
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Other stuff: |
* udebs should not include md5sums files, or postrm, prerm, preinst |
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- The main menu design has some issues. If a step is failing |
scripts. This includes ones generated by debhelper. Linda will find |
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because some step above it did something wrong, but thought |
these pretty well. |
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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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* There is no need to set the seen flag anymore. All code that does so |
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should be removed, unless that code is expected to also possibly run on |
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a normal debian system (choose-mirror). |
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