Re: biweekly debian-installer status report
>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
Joey> Still Todo (for individual TODO lists, see inside the trees of the
Joey> individual modules):
Joey> - cdebconf (miniature debconf in C) [Randolph Chung, Anthony Towns]
Joey> In progress, has one working database backend and one
Joey> working text-based frontend, with progress on a ncurses
Joey> frontend.
I'm curious... why was `ncurses' chosen over Slang for this? I
thought that the reason Slang had been used for the boot-floppies
`dinstall' was that it's a smaller library than `ncurses'. Or, does
it turn out that an `ncurses' subset is smaller or is just easier to
program and more flexible... or what?
Joey> - network card detector [Glenn McGrath, David Whedon]
Joey> [...]
Joey> - other hardware detection [David Whedon]
Joey> David has written detectors for sound, ethernet, cd, cpu,
Joey> disk, and memory detection. All need testing.
Why not use a 2.4.0 kernel with `devfs', and rely on it for device
detection in some way, I clatter... (typing before I look for the
answer myself as usual) From the README in
<kernel-source>/filesystems/devfs, I'd say it's designed for this.
I guess the problem is that you have to try and guess which driver to
insmod, check that insmod worked, and then test that the devfs entry
got made? I'm interested in learning how this will be solved.
Joey> - after-reboot configuration [Joey?]
Joey> Many packages that are currently set up by the
Joey> boot-floppies need to start handling their own setup, after
Joey> reboot, via debconf. These include timezone config, many of
Joey> the things in base-config now, what else?
Actually offer to set the clock then too, I suppose, either from a
timerserver or by hand.
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