Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 02:58:40 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gao=20Long?= <urgaolong@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: RE:LibH or Anaconda ?? Message-ID: <20040526015840.14562.qmail@web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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>Anaconda is certainly an option, but I doubt a binary-only Anaconda is. >Think about it. We need to go beyond running Redhat's installer in >Linux compatibility mode. Also. SuSE just open sourced their YaST >installer. That's an option as well. I migrate from imgaolong@yahoo.com.cn to urgaolong@yahoo.com for the trouble of gb2312 coding. Well, most code in anaconda is just a matter of scripts running on virtual-machine-like python . Pure scripts can be run on python of native FreeBSD almost without any modification , which setup the local X window system, dealing with input/output configuration data, and package installing etc . Not the C codes , after all , as the python can be embedded with C codes. That is why we rewrite the GUI partitioning tools' C codes. We patched in it the code from sysinstall , to partition the hard disk in a BSD slice manner. The only thing I thought about anaconda for a native FreeBSD install is that , shall we package an entire FreeBSD into RPM packages?:)While the rpm need a recompile if we are not to use linux.ko.Or we will have to invent a different one? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
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