Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:23 -0200
Silas Silva <silasdb%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I posted it here: http://pastebin.com/f5ec7a9f
> 
> Please, take a look and make suggestions.

I would put the "disklabel" (and "partitions") inside a "disks" or
"devices" entry. I think that will make it easier to implement your 2nd
TODO item (install on more then 1 disk) as well as other interesting
features in the future like installing on raidframe sets, CGDs, etc.

For example something like this:

devices {
        disk1 {
                disklabel {
                        a {
                                FStype: FFSv2
                                [...]
                                mount point: /
                                [...]
                        }
                        b {
                                FStype: swap
                                start: a
                                [...]
                        }
                        e {
                                FStype: raid_component
                                RAIDset: raid_db
                        }
                        [...]
                }
        }
        disk2 {
                [...]
        }
        raid_db {
                level: 1
                auto_config: yes
        }
}

I don't know how you'll parse the configuration file or how its
contents will be internally represented; it may be possible to drop the
outer "devices" from this.

For the root password, you could handle the value as already encrypted,
like useradd does.

kind regards
dieter