sounds awesome :D On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi all, > at first I wanted to make an automated installer for Arch Linux (with > scripts that specify all the specific aspects of the system). When > starting to build this, I looked at the archboot scripts (/arch/setup > and /arch/quickinst on the install cd) and noticed that I could re-use > lots of code if it would have been split up more (eg I can't just source > the useful functions in /arch/setup, I have to source the whole thing > and hence, start the installer). > > So I started writing "Fifa: the Flexible Installer Framework for Arch > linux" : http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa > > It's designed to be a general, flexible framework for installations. > It uses the concepts of 'phases' and 'workers'. There are 4 phases > (preparation, basics, system, finish), which can each invoke workers (to > get a package list, install packages, install boot loader etc etc). The > workers and phases can be overridden by creating profiles. So the whole > idea is you can create whatever installation procedure you like > (prescripted, autodetection, interactive,...) and you can combine > functionality from different profiles and you can reuse lots of code. > > Keep it mind it's still very, very early in development. It doesn't > work yet, but if you look at the code you'll see the basic ideas (and > the code is maybe simpler then the explanation). > > > Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot > scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an > automated, prescripted installer for > myself. ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very > simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. ) > >
