Re: 2.0 installer integration

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gergo Szakal wrote:
> This is going to be my last attempt on this, since the
> bsdinstaller list and IRC are "dead".

i think people are distracted by other things, but that doesn't mean that the installer code is in bad shape.

> I am trying to integrate the latest BSDinstaller into DragonFly. I
> understood the hierarchy of Lua scripts (I know Lua) and their
> functions (although I am not a big fan of Lua 5.0 with compat-51), and
> a friend of mine has replaced the ports-related stuff to pkgsrc-related
> things. Let's then see what we can do now:

that's cool!  It was a very hairy issue last time I tried because there were hardcoded references to /usr/local everywhere.

>   * I can rewrite the Lua scripts to make them Dragonfly-specific.

I think we should keep the scripts in a way so that they are usable on freebsd and dragonfly, maybe by use of conditionals or by splitting scripts.  I'd like to commit the changes back to the bsdinstaller repo.

> What we cannot do:
>   * Make the CGI interface work.

Is this necessary?  I mean it's a cool feature, but who uses it?

>   * Make the installer reachable via SSH.

that didn't work with the last installer either.  I think this is doable.

cheers
 simon

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