kickstarts and adaptations

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 20:35:02 UTC 2013


Hi all,
right now most of the images, x86 and some of the arm ones are created from a 
series of kickstart files in the plasma-active-kickstart, legacy-kickstarts 
subdirectory.

as the name "legacy" says, there are better ways to do that.

I recreated the info for creating images in the form of yaml files, still in 
the plasma-active-kickstart repo.
That's for coherence with Nemo:
It has a general yaml file plus one yaml file for each hardware adaptation:

in this way it will be possible to produce a kickstart file for each device 
with a single command, you can try it with:

mer-kickstarter -e . -c latest-devel/plasma-active-latest-devel.yaml -o 
active-latest-ks/

as a bonus it uses now all yaml adaptation files from Nemo, gaining support 
for n900,950,pandaboard and an image optimized for virtual machines (with 
virtualbox tools and stuff)


Since we have now contributions of adaptations to new devices such as the 
nexus7, it would be cool if everything will go there, so will be possible to 
better track  what are all the devices where active works, and make easier for 
people to contribute and build images themselves.

It's still not perfect, but i would like to switch the weekly devel images to 
this asap.

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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