[Hamara-devel] Progress with the Calamares Installer

[Vikas Tara]

On 25/08/15 10:08, Raju DV wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
That looks like a really nice approach - better than d-i anyway :)