ISO Installer

[Peter de Ridder]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 02:29 AM, Peter de Ridder wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is an update on the ISO installer.
>> The ISO creation code is mostly finished for some time now. But the
>> installer is not.
>> I've been working on a new modular installer which could help with
>> maintenance. But I don't have enough spare time to work in this.
>> Because of this I've decided to see if we can make de old installer work.
>>
>> Issues I found with the old installer, up until now:
>> - Keyboard layout selection: I don't know which module should include
>> the keyboard layout files the installer is looking for, as they are
>> not on the ISO nor on my main?
>
>
> should this just not be evident from the old package list used when this
> code still worked?

It seems to be part of the kbd module, but the directory in /usr/share
has moved.

>
>
>> - Console font: This needs some terminus-font like module, which is
>> not on the ISO. We could just drop this selection otherwise have some
>> font module on the ISO?
>
>
> just add the fonts - the console fonts are tiny anyway

Ok, here is the pull request:
https://github.com/lunar-linux/moonbase-core/pull/255

>
>
>> Issues I found with generating the ISO:
>> - gcc: If the host has gcc with ppl installed, the BUILD gets ppl
>> pulled in during boostrap and the new gcc will implicitly depend on
>> ppl. https://github.com/lunar-linux/moonbase-core/pull/253
>
>
> I would consider just adding ppl as fixed dependency to gcc.

Also discussed this with Ratler, he agrees on this. And suggested to
make cloop-ppl a hard depend.
I don't fully agree, but here is the change for review:
https://github.com/cavalier38/moonbase-core/commits/gcc-ppl
If you still agree this is the way to go, I'll create the pull request.

>
>
>> - glibc: during make install the manuals fail to build, lots of
>> warnings about subsections. This leaves a broken system. I can't
>> reproduce this on the host, only in the ISO. Would there be an option
>> to disable the manuals or any ideas on what is causing this?
>>
>> Help is welkom, for testing and fixing the ISO building. And for
>> finding and fixing the old installer.
>> Just finding the issue and reporting them is helpfully.
>>
>> How to get the ISO.
>> git clone git://github.com/lunar-linux/lunar-iso.git
>> git checkout rewrite
>> less README
>> edit conf/config.in to conf/config
>> make
>
>
> how about merging this into master? the current master is unusable at this
> point, and keeping this in a branch serves no longer any purpose.

Sure, I'll do that later.

>
> Auke