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

[Jef Barnhart]

The days are still the same as always. I may have just saw the dates
incorrect.

Oh. Next meeting is still at the DCC/old building. We had to push the
move in date back.

Jef

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:54, David Anselmi wrote:
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > 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
> 
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