this gives a more readable formatting to the final make.conf file by adding a space and then just a single "GLI additions" line as a comment before all the lines (not for each one), and a final comment at the end. i tweaked the logic to identify the comments by checking for COMMENT in the key. i couldn't figure out why having that in the value would make sense (especially as then there would be no value to actually print as the comment). also not sure what the "##comment##" format is used for so i made it the same logic. also i added a SPACER check which can add blank lines to the make.conf, although not really necessary, just prettiness. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 56686 [details, diff] patch to improve the marking of what was added by the GLI in the make.conf
This integrates the previous patch with the additional code to allow a precompiled kernel to be installed. The installer profile needs a section similar to: <kernel-compiled> http://example.com/kernel/compiled/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5.tgz </kernel-compiled> The tarball should contain whatever is required for the precompiled kernel to be installed in the target machine, eg. boot/kernel, boot/initrd and any lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r5/* This step is then invoked with "install_kernel".
Created attachment 56855 [details, diff] expand the previous patch to include also addition for installing a precompiled kernel
The custom pre-compiled kernel tarball should be a quickpkg'd binary. You can use my 'mkvardb' script in installer/src/misc and then 'quickpkg' it. That way, the new install can track the files and have the virtual/alsa dependency PROVIDE'd. It can be handled the same way the livecd-kernel stuff is now. The tarball can be downloaded and copied to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/All and then 'emerge -K'd into place.
Created attachment 57287 [details, diff] Updated patch to use emerge -K This patch now implements the pkg install of a precompiled kernel. It also introduces a different way to specify the kernels to be installed using the following xml: <kernels> <kernel type="precompiled"> mykernel-2.6 </kernel> <kernel type="emerge"> =gentoo-sources-2.6.7-r19 </kernel> </kernels> This would install both a precompiled kernel package and a kernel from an emerge of the gentoo sources.
Created attachment 57383 [details, diff] more additions Expands more on the previous patches - Ability to specify files to go into /etc/portage/*, eg.: <etc-portage> <file name="package.use"> sys-libs/glibc userlocales dev-php/mod_php -ldap gd imap mysql -pdflib apache2 -qt -spell -truetype -java dev-php/php -ldap gd imap mysql -pdflib -qt -truetype -java </file> <file name="package.keywords"> =net-mail/perdition-1.15 ~x86 </file> - Allow xml parsing to yank in the whole contents of the node data (ie. remove the string.strip() which was concat-ing all the lines into one single line) - Comments - can they be more readable with some aligning?# - Allow _edit_config to create a file if it doesn't exist (set to True by default)
most of the patch is now in CVS. parts not included are the install_kernel step and precompiled kernels. sorry but I don't think now is the time for that type of functionality.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
