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Bug 179961 - Load / Save install profile + more verbose progress dialog
Summary: Load / Save install profile + more verbose progress dialog
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Installer
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Reported: 2007-05-27 06:16 UTC by Ariel Poliak
Modified: 2007-05-27 20:33 UTC (History)
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Description Ariel Poliak 2007-05-27 06:16:31 UTC
The 2006.1 experimental installer had a feature where it allowed you to save and load the installer settings to an XML file, to avoid having to re-select settings such as partitioning and mounting schemes, as well as use flags and compiler options. Having had 3 installs of 2007.0 fail on me, It's getting a bit tedious re-selecting the use flags over and over again.

The other thing I'd love to have back from that installer is how the progress was shown by a bar with text, and two panes with the stdout/stderr output of the installer/emerge/related app operation. This would also greatly simplify the debugging purpose, as the user would immediately know what went wrong, instead of being told that the installation "failed for some reason", and to go check on a log file on a non-existing location (but that's a matter for another bug)

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Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-27 20:33:54 UTC
The Load/Save functions were removed since they don't make sense anymore. There is no "complete" profile until the install is completely finished, and the GTK+ installer no longer supports loading a complete one anymore due to the heavy code changed for this release.