[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux

[Stythys]

sounds awesome :D

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>wrote:

> Hi all,
> at first I wanted to make an automated installer for Arch Linux (with
> scripts that specify all the specific aspects of the system).  When
> starting to build this, I looked at the archboot scripts (/arch/setup
> and /arch/quickinst on the install cd) and noticed that I could re-use
> lots of code if it would have been split up more (eg I can't just source
> the useful functions in /arch/setup, I have to source the whole thing
> and hence, start the installer).
>
> So I started writing "Fifa: the Flexible Installer Framework for Arch
> linux" : http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa
>
> It's designed to be a general, flexible framework for installations.
> It uses the concepts of 'phases' and 'workers'.  There are 4 phases
> (preparation, basics, system, finish), which can each invoke workers (to
> get a package list, install packages, install boot loader etc etc).  The
> workers and phases can be overridden by creating profiles.  So the whole
> idea is you can create whatever installation procedure you like
> (prescripted, autodetection, interactive,...) and you can combine
> functionality from different profiles and you can reuse lots of code.
>
> Keep it mind it's still very, very early in development.  It doesn't
> work yet, but if you look at the code you'll see the basic ideas (and
> the code is maybe simpler then the explanation).
>
>
> Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot
> scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an
> automated, prescripted installer for
> myself.  ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very
> simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. )
>
>
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