Front-end preview

Paul Gray <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:11:44 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Just in case anyone's curious about the front-end build customization that I
mentioned:

  http://fireant.cs-ceee.uni.edu/selectModules.php

Clicking on the package will (eventually) show the package blurb and list 
the package's full dependencies (so that you can see how it bloats the final 
image).

I'd also like it to have the capability to upload/replace files in the package
with the user's own customized versions (like customized init levels that pull
down Condor using list-packages and build their own distributed 
computing flock...just one example).

Clicking on "confirm" will (eventually) result in an e-mail sent to you to
verify that the build should procede, and to validate that when my systems
churn about 8 hours of CPU cycles, there's someone on the other end of the
Internet that can be contacted to fetch the results.  When the user responds to
the e-mail, procmail comes into play and parses the request, does a cvs
checkout, and pushes the build off on an idle host.  When finished, the iso
will be posted to a web site and an e-mail generated that tells the end user
that their build is complete.

... that is all

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