Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:23 -0200
Silas Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> I posted it here: http://pastebin.com/f5ec7a9f
> 
> Please, take a look and make suggestions.

I would put the "disklabel" (and "partitions") inside a "disks" or
"devices" entry. I think that will make it easier to implement your 2nd
TODO item (install on more then 1 disk) as well as other interesting
features in the future like installing on raidframe sets, CGDs, etc.

For example something like this:

devices {
	disk1 {
		disklabel {
			a {
				FStype: FFSv2
				[...]
				mount point: /
				[...]
			}
			b {
				FStype: swap
				start: a
				[...]
			}
			e {
				FStype: raid_component
				RAIDset: raid_db
			}
			[...]
		}
	}
	disk2 {
		[...]
	}
	raid_db {
		level: 1
		auto_config: yes
	}
}

I don't know how you'll parse the configuration file or how its
contents will be internally represented; it may be possible to drop the
outer "devices" from this.

For the root password, you could handle the value as already encrypted,
like useradd does.

kind regards
dieter