Re: autopartkit (Was: d-i udebs up-to-dateness of archive)
* Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@digital.com> [2002-07-29 14:50]:
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:49, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> >
> > Please also look at Mandrake install. They have done a very nice
> > partitioning tool, which does a lot of autoconfiguration stuff.
> > It's written in perl.
> >
> > CVS is here :
> > http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gi/perl-install/diskdrake/
> > http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gi/
> >
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/
>
> How is this going to be useful ? I guess the point is make debconf ask
> certain question and as per the answer select the profiles and
> associated partitioning mechanism. are there any plans to use languages
> like perl or python to do the partitioning . PGI uses a python based
> installer but as on now doesn't support many partition table . From the
> above link it is mentioned BSD and sun partition table support is in
> CVS. Is there any plans to go with any of these ?
I don't think perl or python will be available for d-i.
I gave those links just for looking how other distro have think their UI,
not for their code.
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