On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote:
From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting.
However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think
I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that
LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most
curious to read other folk's ideas (strategies) to create a more
automated installation semantic for installing gentoo systems. The handbook
is fine; in fact it is great. But, many gentoo users that have performed
more than a dozen gentoo installs sooner or later get around to their own
installations customizations for a wide variety of valid reasons.
Ansible would lend itself to expanded and very targeted types of system
installs where an accomplished gentoo user could supplement the base install
with a collection of specific packages and config settings; imho. Say for
example a secure web or mail server, not that it would be the only
way to build such a server, but just one specific method a particular author
wanted to (share) publish. Surely there are other and better ideas that
folks have used or that they are currently contemplating for routine gentoo
installs?
Maybe some discussion herein could help shape the efforts of [2,3]?
Naturally, we should remember Release Engineering and their role
as pivotal [3]. [1 and 2] are interesting to read.
James
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer
[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS
I used to install and look after OpenSuse Desk and Laptops until systemd
showed it's ugly face. Now I install and look after several Gentoo Xfce
desktops and 3 OpenSuse Xfce Laptops. I use a Cut & Paste script to
install Gentoo on Desktops. The only manual parts are booting a Gentoo
USB stick, modifying hostname, ip address, user names and partitioning.
When completed. Wen done, log in as user and set up email accounts and
various eye candy.
OpenSuse install on laptop involves booting of a installation USB stick,
select Xfce Desktop, manually enter time zone, user name, counry,
hostname, ip address, Samba, login as user and and set up email accounts
and various eye candy.
I am to stupid to install and get Gentoo to work on Laptops.
My "dream" would be to have the OpensSuse Yast installer and
administration gui to install, configure and maintain Gentoo on Desktops
and Laptops. This should be easy for a programmer whois familiar with
Ruby and C. The Yast installer and administration gui's are nothing more
than gui interfaced to various command line utilities.
