On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > > 2 questions: > > [......] > 2) Has anyone looked at just taking an existing installation framework > (d-i? kickstart?) and just making it run different stuff? I honestly > have not looked at either (someone else at work does that thank god) > but it can't be outside of the realm of impossibility...
I probably said this several times, in Sabayon we do use an almost vanilla Aanconda Installer, that does livecd/dvd to hd. Using Anaconda means that stuff like kickstart is supported (even if we never used that). The downside is: we need to use some of cr*ppy redhatish packages (only for the purpose of satisfying anaconda runtime deps), and libselinux/libsepol, which are known to cause automagic dependencies issues across a wide range of random pkgs. We solve that by bundling such libs in our app-admin/anaconda package and installing them on less annoying library path (/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime), something not really Gentoo-compliant. > > -A > >> that's why i said "it'd be nice" and not "i'm going to do it" >> -mike >> >> > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org
