Compose tools common use of kickstart configs (Was Re: Fedora Games Spin)
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Sep 28 14:43:43 UTC 2007
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 19:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>> If both live cd tools and pungi can take kickstart files as input then
>> has any thought been given on the possibility of merging them. At this
>> point they look too similar to be separate tools to me and maybe you can
>> share more code that way too.
>>
>
> The guts of what they do are really quite different. In a lot of ways,
> livecd-creator is really more similar to anaconda than to pungi.
>
> But the fact that all three (pungi, livecd-creator and anaconda) use
> kickstart configs is very very intentional. The idea is that there is
> one common config that can be used to describe an image regardless of
> whether you deploy it by having a traditional tree + installing from it,
> a live image, etc. But that discussion is getting a bit off-topic for
> here. Reply-to: set accordingly
>
This seems reasonable. So issues that come up from one to the other
would be a bug with the tools and not so much with the spin if I
understand the process correctly?
-Mike
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