kickstarts and adaptations

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Monday 14 January 2013 21:35:02 Marco Martin wrote:
> 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.

Though I don't understand even half of the technical details, the "gaining 
support for n900 and n950" and "make it easier for people to contribute and 
build images themselves" parts sound really sweet, so I think it's worth the 
effort!