On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Niall Young wrote:
The CDD Meta-data Package
The basic idea is that each CDD could be distributed in source form using a single deb package. This package will contain all the meta-data needed to install the CDD (or generate a system to install it) using the tools described here.
FAI doesn't yet package up a class description, but this is minor.
Probably this depends from your point of view on CDDs. ;-)
All I'm trying to say is FAI enables much of what you guys want.
... regarding to the installation process - right.
What I'm saying is that FAI, CDD and debian-installer are all trying to solve the same basic problem. Why not work together?
We should definitely.
Why duplicate effort, not just in the implementation but in the concepts and process flow? FAI has done a lot of groundwork, it would be a good idea to see what they've learnt and take advantage of this knowledge instead of repeating the same mistakes. At the very least, I'd work with FAI to combine the FAI class and CDD meta-data concepts so that both projects benefit from such an easy win.
Sure. If we concentrate on installation only then we could definitely benefit from FAI. My point was that a CDD is more then just installing a box.
The logical place for all of this is with the debian-installer - allow Debian GNU/Linux to have non-interactive installation of any CDD out of the box. A CDD description could reside on a floppy or USB keyring, and you could install it with any Official CD. Everyone wins! They could even replace the old task packages, and some of the most popular CDDs could be on the Official CD.
If you ask me combining FAI with debian-installer would be such a great deal that Debian would win as a whole and CDD would profit as an internal effort inside Debian from this combination. If this is done CDD could easily adopt the things which are needed.
Just don't go down your own path, alone. Work together. Combine
Definitely.
resources and build a common standard, then aim for a stable sid release.
Do you mean the release after Sarge?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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