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FS#532 - Ideas for the installer

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 12 March 2004, 19:14 GMT
Last edited by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Friday, 20 June 2008, 05:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Installation
Status Closed
Assigned To Simo Leone (neotuli)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I download the 0.6 base CD. Its well done. To include module probe for the FTP installer was a good idea. I did a test FTP install, for the first time, and few ideas came up.

1. To speed up the install with FTP, if a selected package exists on the CD then it will be installed from CD instead of FTP.
2. Would it be possible to include the packages short description... the package names alone don't tell much about what they are / do.
This task depends upon

This task blocks these from closing
 FS#10702 - 2008 RC ISO related bugs 
Closed by  Simo Leone (neotuli)
Friday, 20 June 2008, 05:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  implemented 1, which was easy since pacman can do multiple cache directories.

2 is a bit trickier, and I agree with damir, somewhat unessessary.
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Monday, 31 January 2005, 13:06 GMT
1) good idea

2) if you don't know what a pkg provides, then you most probably does not need to install it at installation but can add it with pacman later

my 0x02 Rp ;-)
Comment by No Need (Qootie) - Monday, 14 November 2005, 02:45 GMT
1. Yes, very good idea. Installer should ask, "Same version of the package requested for install from FTP was found in the local directory (CD-ROM). (It is recommended to) Use CD-ROM Installation for this package.(?) Yes || No || Yes to All || No to All"

2. I Agree with Damir Perisa.
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Thursday, 22 June 2006, 16:25 GMT
A unionfs solution would probably work best for #1, I think Aaron said he'd look into it before this feature req gets moldy :)
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 21:09 GMT
This is (will be) addressed in some of the installer livecd stuff I've been throwing around with the archie/larch guys.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 02 March 2007, 10:47 GMT
shouldn't we reassign this task to tpowa? i guess he can put feature request 1) into the next release. it doesn't sound that hard.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 02 March 2007, 15:59 GMT
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Thursday, 17 April 2008, 18:58 GMT
Is this bug still relevant? If not (and from what I can tell, it isn't), it should be closed.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 22:17 GMT
Simo what do you think?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 19 June 2008, 18:57 GMT
Keep this open. They are good ideas and I may implement them when I tackle the installer/ISO in the next few days

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