On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Elentir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fwife work now good (i hope ;) ) for making a first beta version. It's a 
> "ubuntu like" installer for fwlive, so it just support netinstall.
> Sources can be downloaded from :
> http://utopia.toile-libre.org/upload/fwife/fwife-0.1.tar.gz
> or find in git repo :
> http://github.com/Elentir/fwife
> 
> It surely remains many bugs and things to improve (and i've many ideas :) 
> ). So can you have a look at it? Of course, any bug, suggestions, patchs, 
> ideas or others are welcome :)
> See  Readme for details (compiling, know bugs, todo, etc.)

First, sorry for the extremely slow reply. I cloned the git tree today,
and tested it (commit 7759607dfbe230922ec236a09892fbc06baac7ce) in a
cleanly installed system.

Notes:

- It would be nice to allow installing without a swap partition, the
  console installer allows it.
- During the download, it would be nice to have a global progressbar,
  not just a per-package one.
- The 'Forward' button is "clicked in" during the download:
  http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/bug/fwife.png
  that's unintentional, I guess. :)
- It would be nice if there would be a 'make install' target, so that we
  could package fwife (and include it in fwlive).
- On stdout/stderr, I get some warnings:
  http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/logs/fwife.log (though just forget them
  if they do not appear at you, on this minimal system I get such
  warnings from firefox as well).
- I selected locale-extra and now the poor installer seem to download
  all the language packs, while the original setup always selected only
  the relevant ones, based on the language.
- The default filesystem is ext2, I guess ext3 would be better.
- When using file:/// as a custom mirror, it seems that there is no
  feedback during the download. Of course if you are patient then the
  install progressbars are OK again. :) (and there you have the global
  and the local progressbar, something like this would be needed for the
  download one).
- Spelling: connexion is connection in English. :)
- xconfig seem not to call /usr/libexec/xconfig-helper, so you can
  easily create a non-working xorg.conf.
- Your improved xconfig allows selecting the login manager in
  /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but when I select kdm from kdm and xdm, and
  last line of /etc/sysconfig/desktop will be:

  #desktop="/usr/bin/xdm 
-nodaemon"#desktop="/usr/bin/slim"#desktop="/usr/sbin/gdm 
--nodaemon"desktop="/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon"

  so that X is not started after the install. (The contents seem to be
  fine, just don't omit the \ns.)

- root:root is the owner/group of /home/user, so users have no write
  access to their HOME.
- It seems that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing after the install, so I
  had to run xconfig manually after booting to the installed system.

Other than that, well done!

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