Last update: 2004-08-29

This is a simple TODO-file for the 3.0 series.


The requirements will always be:

 - Simpllicity:

    It shall be possible to download, make floppy and boot. Editing a 
    config file with userid/password, turning on daemons and stuff
    shall be easy.

 - Space:

    It has to fit into a 1.44 floppy in it's base version.

 - Packages:

    It should be easy to make packages for floppyfw.


So, the items:

DONE:

 - tmpfs: 

    Change the filesystem for the ramdisk to a dynamically resized filesystem, 
    tmpfs.

 - new libc

    It's now uClibc.

 - directory structure

    Since we are using the growable filesystem we can start using /usr and
    friends. This means we can let busybox put it's applet links where it 
    wants to instead of forcing them all to /bin

 - development environment

    Now you can just download a tarball, chroot and type "make" to end up
    with a freshly compiled floppyfw image.

 - Netfilter patch-o-matic

    I personally do not like this approach at all (it proves netfilter has a
    ugly API/ABI) but I wanted some extra conntrack modules.

    Later they changes to a new patch-o-matic, the patch-o-matic-ng,
    which is even worse than the one we use now.

 - Wondershaper.

    Nice thing to have.


WILL HAPPEN:

 - config file(s)

    Look into and probably change the config file into a more readable 
    and also more friendly towards installers and upgrade scripts.

MAY HAPPEN:

 - shell variables.

    Clean up the $FOO and ${FOO} way of having variables in the scripts
    all over floppyfw. $FOO is the preferred way altho ${FOO} has it's 
    advantages.

 - Turning off any sort of login.

NICE TO HAVE:

 - (u)dhcpd options from within some editable config file.

    Another suggestion has been to use the dhcp daemon in dnsmasq 2.*