[Hamara-devel] Progress with the Calamares Installer

[Raju DV]

On 08/25/2015 02:17 PM, Raju DV wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/24/2015 05:57 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 24/08/15 10:49, Raju DV wrote:
>>> I finally managed to successfully build Calamares at last.
>>>
>>> I followed the build instructions as given on calamares repo on github
>>>
>>> https://github.com/calamares/calamares
>>>
>>> but my distribution (Debian Jessie) was not having a lot of dependencies
>>> available. So I built some dependency packages from source but still the
>>> dependencies were not being met, specially some KDE components.
>>>
>>> I found that some of the dependent packages are already available in
>>> Debian Stretch. I did an upgrade with my distro to stretch and built it
>>> again.
>>> and managed to build calamares successfully.
>> I guess you didn't find them in backports?
> 
> Using backports didn't come to my mind. Anyways I have updated and I am
> on Stretch now.
> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So as stated in the line no.19 in the above paste,
>>> I have to work on setting up these files within the sugam build.
>>>
>>> /etc/calamares/settings.conf
>>> /usr/local/share/calamares/settings.conf
>> Interested to know what these configs do - as compared to d-i. I suspect
>> their purpose is similar.
>>
>> Also does calamares use preseed?
> 
> As far as I know. It doesn't. I will update on this on what exactly does
> Calamares uses to configure the installer?
> 


Calamares does not use any preseed file. Instead They use some module
configuration files which can be used to configure the behavior of the
Installer.

https://github.com/calamares/calamares/tree/master/src/modules

as you can see in the above part there is a module for configuring
bootloader, keyboard, welcome message etc.




>>
>> Vik
>>
>>
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