Re: Anything to do?

[Andrew Resch]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 20:09 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
> Andrew Resch wrote:
> > Hi Luis!
> > 
> > Any help, I am sure, is greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > A few things that I can think of right now that need to be worked on
> > are:
> > 
> > Installer for GNU - probably off a Live CD? I was thinking a live system
> > on a cd that we could maybe just cp over to a hard drive?  The
> > components for a proper Live CD probably still need some work.
> > 
> > Packager Manager - we need to figure out what a GNU package will look
> > like.. I believe Alfred probably has some sort of idea about that as it
> > ties into the GSC I believe.  Maybe we could use apt to install the
> > packages?
> > 
> > GNU System Creator - still needs to be finished? I actually have no
> > clue.. Last time I tried it out, it seemed to work quite well for
> > building the few packages I tried.  Maybe Alfred can give us an update?
> > 
> > I guess at this point we need to have some more discussion on what
> > things need to be done and how we want them to be done.
> > 
> > Alfred, could you please give us an update on GNU and what you think
> > needs to be done and maybe some notes on how you would like to see it
> > done?
> > 
> > Anyways, I hope my jumbled thoughts help you out, and maybe we can spark
> > some discussion ;)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 01:27 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>How the GNU system development goes?,
> >>
> >>I am gonna get vacations soon, and i want to know
> >>if you guys need any help.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>       Luis
> >>
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Alfred doesn't like apt.  I spoke to him about it ages ago.  I think he
> was looking to use stow in some fashion.
> 
> Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)
> 
> 
Well, we'd need some way of getting packages off the net, or cd, or
whatever.. But maybe we dont need anything as complex as apt to do that
job if stowfs is doing everything else.

Andrew