> On May 3, 2021, at 11:40 AM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: >> [..] >> Its layers upon layers upon layers of virtualization and automation. > > Imagine you ever stop maintaining it. Somebody will have to install > gigabytes of toolkits to make changes to future distro versions…
Actually, its not to bad. RBEv2 was not as easy as RBEv3 to customize a release. But all this stuff I talk about here is the same... Basically, you set up a linux system running openSUSE leap. The RBE is complex enough as it is. So, that is only linux version I officially support. (However, some others are unofficially supported and work fine.) download the install script from the repo. do a… sudo install it will configure stuff on the system and download everything required for the RBE to function. a little while later…. thats done. type make wait a long while, up to the minute version of FreeDOS with the absolute latest packages. Customizing and maintaining releases are super easy, the RBE has a small config that says where to get things like the installer. The the installer has plain lists of packages. Config file templates and all that fancy stuff. So… In reality, unless a build bug related to the RBE is found or there is some fundamental change to the installer its code doesn’t actually need touched going forward. ( I know it will need stuff changed, but very little at this point) For RBEv2, there was a user running it as well. He has a vision impairment and wanted some proprietary software to be loaded and installed when installing FreeDOS. For RBEv2, that caused me to make some changes to the RBE. Then with a couple emails, helped him create a package and build his own release media. For RBEv3, I just built that functionality into it. > > Cheers, Eric :-) Jerome
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