provide a script to download kernels and filesystems ?

Yes, of course, essentially because the file systems may be heavy. There
are three options in my opinion :
1) have some distinct optional (recommended?) packages, one per filesystem
2) have a script as you propose
3) have a feature "file-system installations" integrated in marionnet
I don't have a preference, but at least one method should be provided to
the user. If you are willing, the point 2) could be also a good starting
point for 3).

Le 13/02/2013 13:40, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> Public bug reported:
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't really include kernels and filesystems in the Debian package itself. What I'd like to do is provide a script that automatically downloads kernels and filesystems to the /usr/share/marionnet/ dir.
> This script doesn't really have a reason to be specific to Debian, and it would probably be easier to maintain if it was included in the upstream bzr repository and tarball.
>
> What are your thoughts on that?
>
> (I would work on the script myself, by reusing parts of marionnet-from-
> scratch).
>
> ** Affects: marionnet
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

On 14/02/13 at 13:34 -0000, Jean-Vincent Loddo wrote:
> 3) have a feature "file-system installations" integrated in marionnet
> I don't have a preference, but at least one method should be provided to
> the user. If you are willing, the point 2) could be also a good starting
> point for 3).

System-wide installations are probably much better in the context of
universities. We don't really want each and every student to store the
filesystems in its home directory.

Lucas

On 15/02/13 at 08:10 +0100, Franck Butelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From my point of view, I would prefer to have a -core (or -common)
> package with binaries, icons etc.
> and additional packages with kernels, filesystems (virtual machines) etc.
> this have the advantage to be able to benefit of the package system
> to take care of versions of filesystems etc. as well.
> And, moreover, it may be possible to give minimal packages and extended
> ones with specific filesystems.
>
> Well, this is just my preference.

The problem with that is that it would be a huge package whose content
cannot be easily rebuilt from source (the content of filesystems is not
generated by scripts AFAIK?). An alternative could be to provide a
"marionnet-downloader" package that downloads filesystems and kernels at
installation time (similarly to what is done with the proprietary flash
plugin).

Anyway, my first goal is to get a working marionnet package, with a
script making it easy to download kernels/filesystems. There are still
some big blockers for that, such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124055.

When that first goal is achieved, I will investigate how to provide
kernels and filesystems.

Lucas

Hi,

Attached is an attempt at a patch for marionnet_from_scratch that adds a --download-only option, that skips all steps except the download of filesystems and kernels.

It was hard to integrate properly -- it should be possible to improve the patch with some refactoring of marionnet_from_scratch.

Please let me know what you think.

Lucas

Hi Lucas,

I have modified the script as described in your patch, trying to
integrate it properly as you suggest. I tested it and it seems to run
correctly with or without --download-only (and also according to options
-F, -P and -K). I pushed the bzr version 424.
Thank you for the patch proposal,
Jean-Vincent

Le 01/07/2013 17:57, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Attached is an attempt at a patch for marionnet_from_scratch that adds a
> --download-only option, that skips all steps except the download of
> filesystems and kernels.
>
> It was hard to integrate properly -- it should be possible to improve
> the patch with some refactoring of marionnet_from_scratch.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Lucas
>
> ** Patch added: "0003-Hack-marionnet-from-scratch-to-download-only.patch"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/marionnet/+bug/1124072/+attachment/3720647/+files/0003-Hack-marionnet-from-scratch-to-download-only.patch
>