moonbase.tar.bz2 versus darksideofthemoon.tar.bz2

[Auke Kok]

On 05/25/2011 05:23 AM, Jean-Michel Bruenn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have to agree. The current way of doing such things is bad. And we
> already had several talks about that on IRC as you might remember,
> darksideofthemoon sounds good by the way, for the edgy stuff :)
>
> I had to switch away from Lunar on some of my production machines, i
> wouldn't say its like giving up Lunar completly but i guess i know what
> you mean.
>
>> If no one objects i'd like to start implementing this (preferably yesterday...)
>
> Go for it. If you need help, lemme know what to do. Maybe we could
> setup something in the bugtracker for better development of this.
>
>> If anyone has a good idea on how to implement this, please speak free.
>
> Well, as you've already written in subject darksideofthemoon.tar.bz2
> i'd just keep it simple and add a dialog to lunar like the
> lunar/theedge choice - Choose between moonbase / darksideofthemoon.
> Then we'd need to make sure that the scripts like "lunar update" fetch
> the correct moonbase and i'd just continue to unpack it all
> to /var/lib/lunar/moonbase. Thats most likely the easiest way to do
> this.

that code is pretty much already in place, just `lunar set MOONBASE` 
etc... to the appropriate values. shouldn't take much core changes - the 
moonbase handling code is very generic.

Auke