CDs from DVD with Pungi almost works

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:40 AM -0400 6/5/07, Jarod Wilson wrote:

>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 6:50 AM -0400 6/5/07, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> If you're using pungi on Fedora 7
>>
>> No.  The goal is to help people who can't use a DVD upgrade using CDs, so I
>> and they will be using FC6 to split the F7 DVD with the Pungi from 6.
>
>You're asking for a world of hurt if you're trying to build F7 CDs using
>the FC6 pungi.

How so?  There seems to be a problem with the comps.xml file, which omits
20 packages, some of which are needed.  So far no one has addressed my
questions, including that one.  Will there be other problems?

Should those who needs F7 CDs install F7 first?  I don't suppose that's
much more a slap in the face than having to use Pungi to create the images
in the first place.


>>> comps is not used to determine what packages
>>> get onto the media.  The manifest file does.  In the case of Fedora 7 there
>>> is an /etc/pungi/f7-fedora.manifest file shipped, as well as
>>> an /etc/pungi/f7-fedora.i386/x86_64/ppc  file that can be slightly modified
>>> to make CD isos.  Just uncomment and lower the cdsize variable and increase
>>> the discs variable.
>>
>> Where is this .manifest file shipped?  There are no .manifest files on
>> the DVD.
>
>Its part of the pungi configs in versions later than the one for FC6.
>And no, you can't simply build the newer pungi for FC6 either, its got
>some deps that would need to be brought back as well. Been there, done
>that, actually, and wouldn't recommend it as something to suggest to
>end-users wanting to generate CDs from the DVD. I'd just use F7 to build
>CDs, get the posted somewhere, and get a torrent going.

Yes, please do!  Many people who need to install from CDs will thank you
for that!
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