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diff --git a/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn b/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn index 14610fb..af7b47a 100644 --- a/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn +++ b/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn @@ -1,40 +1,3 @@ [[!meta title="Installation Bootstrap Tool"]] -A tool similar to [debootstrap][debootstrap] of Debian needs to be written to -bootstrap the installation of a basic system. It can be used for building -packages (see "Package Cross Building Tool" below) or installing the operating -system on hardware targets. - -Basically, the tool would fetch from the package archive the index of packages, -determine which packages need to be installed, download each package, and unpack -each package. Since the package manager may not be available, the tool must -handle dependency resolution and package unpacking on its own. - -To be determined is how the "second stage" of the installation ‒ the execution -of package maintainer scripts (`preinst` and `postinst`) to complete the -configuration of each package ‒ will be done. At least most of the time, this -tool will be used to install packages built for an architecture that differs -from the architecture on which the tool is run; therefore utilities used by -maintainer scripts may not be executable. In this situation, debootstrap leaves -behind a copy of itself in the installed system to be executed on the target -architecture. Such a solution might not work for this tool, because nothing can -be executed on the target architecture until the installed system is booted, and -the installed system shouldn't be booted until after the packages are -configured. - -We can't use debootstrap, since the formats of our binary packages and package -archives differ slightly from those of Debian. But we can model our tool after -debootstrap or even just fork debootstrap. - -If written portably (i.e. in conformance with POSIX.1), this tool could be used -to make base system images on any UNIX-like operating system with an -implementation of tar. On any operating system that also has a chroot program, -this tool can be used with the package cross building tool described below to -build packages for this distribution. Therefore, these tools can be thought of -as a "Software Development Kit" ("SDK") for the distribution, usable on any -capable development system. - -Hopefully, this tool can be done by October 2012. - - -[debootstrap]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debootstrap.git;a=tree +Page removed. |