Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-26 Thread Ramon van Alteren
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:07:44PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 08/26/2010 10:38 AM, Ramon van Alteren wrote: > > The code is ugly and depends in most cases on an external information > > source to do the work, but given sufficient interest I'm willing to see if > > I can clean it up and make it

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-26 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/26/2010 10:38 AM, Ramon van Alteren wrote: > The code is ugly and depends in most cases on an external information > source to do the work, but given sufficient interest I'm willing to see if > I can clean it up and make it generic enough for general use. That would be great ^^ lu -- Luc

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-26 Thread Ramon van Alteren
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:23:58PM +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > agaffney had started work on quickstart, which basically did what the > handbook did in an automatic fashion. i only tried it a couple of times, > but it worked rather well. > > its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looki

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/12/2010 08:23 PM, Thilo Bangert wrote: > its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looking at deploying Why isn't already an official project ^^? It looks quite what we need =P lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Thilo Bangert
> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on > thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation > process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? > Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? > 1.5) There is a hidden ass

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on >> thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation >> process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on > thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation > process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? > Has anyone written a Gentoo installer t

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Alec Warner 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 go

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 12 August 2010 17:13, Thilo Bangert wrote: >>> Ben de Groot said: On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer agai

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 12 August 2010 17:13, Thilo Bangert wrote: >> Ben de Groot said: >>> On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... >>> >>> No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Ben de Groot
On 12 August 2010 17:13, Thilo Bangert wrote: > Ben de Groot said: >> On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... >> >> No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. > > Could you explain why you think so? 1) it was an e

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Thilo Bangert
Ben de Groot said: > On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... > > No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. Could you explain why you think so? > > Cheers, > Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... > > No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. That one, for sure. > > Cheers, > Ben > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://l

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Ben de Groot
On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. Cheers, Ben

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > I have noticed that this list and the gentoo-releng irc channel > have been dead for a very long time, and I remember seeing a post a > while back in which agaffney announced his retirement.  Also there are > multiple bugs open on livecd-tools,

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-08 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07-08-2010 21:15, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I have noticed that this list and the gentoo-releng irc channel > have been dead for a very long time, and I remember seeing a post a > while back in which agaffney announced his retirement. Also t