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author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2008-11-10 19:08:48 +0100 |
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committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2008-11-10 19:08:48 +0100 |
commit | 636beb7447d93821ec6c9e670c2e8a3d284a1d85 (patch) | |
tree | 6818705ee3065c93c4430c5ef8fde690c5836b6a | |
parent | 8e6ba742f744093c36faac73bf38fad613fe3bf2 (diff) |
section about contributing
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@@ -99,9 +99,19 @@ core/quickinst: mostly DIY. port of /arch/quickinst dieter/automatic: unofficial. not enabled by default +** Contributing ** +Install a VM (I use virtualbox-ose, works fine), make a vm, boot the install +cd (only i686 works in vbox) and just follow the HOWTO. +It's probably easiest if you set up your own git clone that you can easily +acces from the VM (You can open a github account and for my code). +You can edit on the cd itself, but given the low resolution of the VM and the limited +choice of editors, you'll probably edit on your pc, commit, push to github +and pull from the clone on the cd. If you want to do debugging, just call the debug function and export DEBUG=1 before calling the scripts. + + Much of the code in the core module is taken (and modified) from the 'real' arch linux install scripts code. (/arch/setup and /arch/quickinst). the modifications are mostly done to make the code more (re)useable and to separate backend code, user |