CLUEnix [was Re: [CLUE-Cert] Next meeting]

[David Anselmi]

Dennis J Perkins wrote:
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> 
> CLUEnix?  Hmm.  We did wonder what to call it.  Jeff, what do you think?
> 
> Well, you could learn how to build an installer but it would be specific to 
> what we do.  I do know that text-based installers are using dialog or cdialog 
> to ask questions and I have found two programs that I hope will work for 
> testing hardware.  I know how I want to do part of the build engine.
> 
> I've never built .RPM or .deb packages.  If you are using gentoo, I think I 
> know roughly what it does, but I don't know how it handles dependencies.  I 
> might need to install it just to explore its package manager.

There are a lot of problems to solve in building an installer.  That's 
why I would take apart someone else's, to learn how they did things. 
Otherwise it is too big a project for me (short attention span, you know).

Art Reisman was asking about making a custom install.  If I knew how the 
Debian installer worked, I'd use that to build one for him -- should be 
a pretty easy mod, just bypass the tasksel or dselect steps and install 
a fixed list of packages.  But I don't know enough to help him.

What you guys are doing sounds cool though, I'll try to make the next 
meeting.  Is it really not until 1 July?

Dave