Francois Saint-Jacques wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:35:33AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a
mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I have been thinking
that the best option would be to include templates in the installation
procedure that could pull down different packages sets depending on what
kind of distro you want. e.g - Indiana, minimum, Reference.
What do you guys thing?
-Brian
On 6/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Beforing getting in the package management/installation stuff, I think we
need to solve a big problem here: ON build. The current build process is
really monolithic and unfriendly for new commers. What is all that
'nightly' and 'bldenv' stuff?
Have you considered seperating in packages and give the freedom to build
what ever you want (kernel, libc, base utils) like GNU tools? By following
this method, you give more freedom to external distribution.
It is possible to do partial builds even today.
nightly will build the whole thing. bldenv will start a new shell with the
environment vars setup properly. Now in this shell you can only build libc
by doing: cd usr/src/lib/libc; make
Build kernel via: cd usr/src/uts; make
The thing that is missing is a make menuconfig like stuff that can allow
one to build a reduced set of kernel components or a reduced features
kernel.
Currently all kernel components are built.
Regards,
Moinak.
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