Re: Anything to do?

[Luis F. Araujo]

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.
>
>  
Yes, that's what ive thought for the installer also.
Searching through the mailing ist archives, i found (looks like the
first email) a good description about what would be an ideal installer:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2004-04/msg00000.html

Now.. i wonder.. Is Wolfgang working on this?

> 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?
>
>  
No apt.
According to some emails in the archive, the idea is to use stow until
stowfs is written. But that's the package manager, what about the 
package builder?

> 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.
>
>  
I hope so.

I also found a 'roadmap' in the archives:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2004-04/msg00003.html

In response to that email, Alfred, what do you think about pkgsrc
as package manager?

I also don't like dpkg/rpm, and might sound crazy for some of you,
but i actually would like more portage than apt.

NOTE: portage handles both binary and source packages.