On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:53:53AM +0200, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:

I'm porting livecd-iso-to-disk with the help of luke's work I have few questions can the password for "cryptsetup luksFormat -y -q $loop" be passed through a pipe ?

I'm not quite sure, although it is worth a shot. You could also try to hack around it using expect as well, but that is a bit dirty :)

I've created a directory called BaseLiveUSB so that my work won't interfere with the working one and I'm working my own branch so that I won't break things

I'm rewriting it for the following reasons 0. there are new features in livecd-iso-to-disk

1. drop QT from Base
2. BaseLiveUSB backend should pass the GUI new features without any

change on the GUi code (for example it should populate a list called bootloaders=[syslinux,xo syslinux,mactel] or something like that and the GUi front end should supply a combo box to the user so that when a new boot loader is implemented it will be there just like that.

I'll make an abstract class for boot loader step, something like this class BootloaderSysLinuxXO(BootloaderSysLinux): ...

and LinuxBaseLiveUSB(BaseLiveUSB) will set the available bootloaders in linux ..etc.

and in the BaseLiveUSB.run() it will call self.bootloader.set_bootloader() or self.bootloader.write_config() ...etc.

after BaseLiveUSB is done right the GUI part then would be trivial

I know talk is cheap and you want to see code, I'll try to do it as soon as possible

Sounds good; let me know if you have any more questions or run into any problems.

Cheers,

luke