Modules galore

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.
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Modules galore

Post#1 by ashkenazi » 29 Jan 2015, 13:07

Here's an idea:

Convert a whole Slackware repo to .xzm modules and enable users to pick ANY app they need in their ISO. This one is a good candidate:
https://slackonly.com/pub/packages/
Some examples: an option to choose the default text editor, default media player, default shell, default web browser, default services (Samba, NFS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, etc), WINE, Compiz, ALSA / OSS4, Teamviewer, Virtualbox, all additional applications, games, basically everything that somebody needs in that particular Porteus system. Implement an option on the website where users pick their apps from a list of available apps and it adds them to a list of selected apps.
This would make it easy to set up workstations without messing with manual module / package installation (saves time for system maintainers). Also, it could be used to quickly create network and file servers (just as the PXE option works).
Just plug and play!

Additional (not necessary) : an option to pick a (GTK, QT, icon, mouse, Emerald) theme from gnome-look, create a module, and put it into a generated ISO.

Pros:
Rapid system deployment. Users would need to create only modules with system settings (custom rc.d scripts, conf files, etc).
Cons:
This would generate more web traffic.
Amount of time necessary to implement this.

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Re: Modules galore

Post#2 by francois » 29 Jan 2015, 18:23

Thanks a lot for this interesting site on slackware package. I will put it in my list when I am looking for more specific packages. :)
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Re: Modules galore

Post#3 by ashkenazi » 30 Jan 2015, 10:03

That repository is good when combined with slapt-get. :)

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Re: Modules galore

Post#4 by brokenman » 30 Jan 2015, 13:13

Interesting. I will keep an eye on it and see if it stays around and updated.
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Re: Modules galore

Post#5 by ncmprhnsbl » 30 Jan 2015, 22:50

from the about blog "i decided to fix all slackbuilds as packages"

it appears to be the entire slackbuilds.org catalog, very handy indeed, thank you. :)
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Re: Modules galore

Post#6 by ashkenazi » 01 Feb 2015, 17:22

Step 1: Convert all the packages to .xzm modules
Step 2: Add the option to choose from all the newly created modules here: http://build.porteus.org/
Step 3: PROFIT!

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Re: Modules galore

Post#7 by fanthom » 02 Feb 2015, 23:19

@ashkenazi
we have dropped an idea of offering everything as a module on the website as its not possible to reliably track dependencies in this form.

thats why brokenman wrote USM. just use it and you are good to go.
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