Part of that is being taken care of currently in the source distribution for AOLserver for OpenACS at
http://uptime.openacs.org/aolserver-openacs. I'm currently reworking the script to include downloading OpenACS and creating and instance.
Currently I'm testing the latest version of AOLserver (the addition of tcl8.4 has some nice speed improvements).
I need to continue testing through. I was actually hoping to make a beta version available for OpenACS 4.7.
My current plan is:
o Basic install questions (db name, database type, base installation directory, use daemontools, inetd, or init scripts).
o Download AOLserver, required modules, optional modules)
o Display list of available OpenACS modules, select which to install.
o Download and install modules, create instance.tcl, instance directory, log direcoty.
o Fire up nsd -ft instance.tcl of package installation.
The basic framework is in my original code (on uptime) but
I'm open to ideas.
