On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:22:10PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: > > The emphasis here is on using FAI's class mechanism as a complete > *description* of any host. I'm more interested in using class definitions > to create a host, than in extracting a class or filesystem from an > existing host. The goal is not only to automate installation of Debian, > but to use the *very same* classes and install mechanism to automate creation > of live CDs. Then get all of this into d-i so it's a standard feature > of Debian. Then Debian subprojects can concentrate on defining classes, > drawing upon Debian to create subset/customised distributions, instead of > every subproject maintaining their own installation and build tools, > custom package pools etc. > > Anyone willing to sponsor? :-)
I can't donate much development time, but I'm certainly willing to be a test monkey and upload sponsor if needed. - Matt
