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Roadmap for version 2009.11-alpha Expand all | Collapse all

23% of 11 tasks completed. 9 open tasks:

FS#10753 - Develop a dual-architecture liveCD Expand Collapse

Pierre brought this up in IRC. We should develop a livecd containing both x86_64 and i686 systems so that we could have an "all-in-one" disk to hand out at places like Froscon. I've set the due date on this to the beginning of August since froscon is in August.

FS#13050 - output to stdout when in grub menu breaks ncurses layout Expand Collapse

When you're in the grub menu from archlinux-installer (I think aif has this too), at 2 points a line is being echo'd to stdout, which breaks the ncurses layout momentarily at these 2 moments.

I will figure out when/why this happens, and fix it in aif.

FS#13701 - improve readability of partition editor menu Expand Collapse

See http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/aif/aif-alpha_0.6-disks-overview-dia.png
2 problems:
1) lack of spaces. I must change the way we use dialog so we can have spaces is item descriptions.
2) too much content. Implement usage of --item-help so we can shift some (which?) content to a line at the bottom.

FS#13945 - refactor all grub stuff Expand Collapse

- use grub-install in all procedures
- clean up related dialogs etc.
- i can probably libraryize the grub stuff a bit more

FS#15578 - aif -p automatic: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Expand Collapse

When using:
aif -p automatic -c /usr/share/aif/examples/generic-install-on-sda
(probably other configs too)

After installing the packages, I think it happens when doing the grub stuff, you get about 10 of these:

end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

The resulting system doesn't seem to be harmed however.

FS#15680 - why do we generate locales on the target system twice? Expand Collapse

we run "worker_auto_locale" after install_packages, and we also run "worker_locales" after configure_system.
worker_auto_locale calls target_configure_initial_locale
worker_locales calls target_locale-gen


target_configure_initial_locale parses rc.conf and uncomments locales in ${var_TARGET_DIR}/etc/locale.gen, after which it calls target_locale-gen
target_locale-gen chroots in the target and runs locale-gen.

is it needed that we do this twice? the only things that happen between worker_auto_locale and worker_locales is:
- keymap/font updating in ${var_TARGET_DIR}/etc/rc.conf
- configure_system step (you know, the interactive thing for editing files, setting root pass etc)
- generating mkinitcpio

FS#15753 - rolling back twice doesn't (always?) work Expand Collapse

once you've setup disks and you rollback,

- if you then want to create new filesystems:
it will say '->Already done' even though they aren't done. (they will mount afterwards because they still exist)
- if you want to roll back the setup:
it will say 'Phase 1: Umounting all specified mountpoints' but only kill the swap, the other filesystems stay mounted

FS#15854 - package installation fails, yet it thinks all is good Expand Collapse

i just did a netinstall, my mirror gave my connection refused at one of the last packages, so pacman said 'cannot satisfy all dependencies' or something like that.
However, I got 'package installation complete', after which I saw very quickly some errors. (probably because of the extra workers being executed because i thought package installation went fine).

If you see the error and redo the step it's not a problem, but we should check this better

FS#15855 - more flexible repo & source choosing Expand Collapse

right now you either pick cd-rom (with which you only have the core repo) or you pick NET (with which you _should_ have more repo's available? but package selection said only core was enabled after all..)

anyway, it seems like a good idea to let the user pick one or more repo's with corresponding sources.
Eg he could pick 'core from cd', 'extra from my mirror' and stuff like that.