Re: Server installation over the network

On 10 April 2017 at 23:35, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Anshuman Aggarwal
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have started pruning the PackageNames.txt file for a server install.
>> Can we split this file into a say ServerPackageNames.txt and append
>> the GUIPackageNames.txt and the ISO build script can be given an
>> option to make either one? This will allow us to keep server and gui
>> ISO builds around without double maintenance?
>>
>> Regards
>> Anshuman
>>
>
> To be fair, I wouldn't like to touch the installer right now. We're going to
> have a complete rewrite of it very soon, now that our abstraction toolkit
> (AbsTk) library has been ported to Lua. We'll likely want to go with a
> different approach to the installation of remote packages instead of the
> traditional "network install", too.
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
>

I suggest that the new installer have multiple installation options
for packages like minimal, server or at least GUI/No GUI
(headless/virtual vs desktop/laptop use cases).

Also does Gobo have the concept of meta packages where a recipe is
only used to install dependencies automatically like Ubuntu-desktop
etc?
Even though the file system itself is the database of installed
packages, it is very convenient to be able to just install/remove a
whole set together without having to remember dependencies.

I just went to the package list in GoboALFS and it was daunting for
someone who doesn't which packages depend on which one, since
gnu-linux is so inherently modular and has so many inter dependencies
on installed packages.

Thanks
Anshuman
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