Recomposing with generic-logos

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 19 19:47:43 UTC 2008


Jeroen van Meeuwen (kanarip at kanarip.com) said: 
> I'm recomposing Fedora without fedora-logos, and instead using the 
> generic-logos package, in order to get de-branded installation media (so 
> that others can re-brand Fedora).
>
> The result shows[1], while tty3 shows[2]; it seems there's no fonts loaded 
> -or they cannot be found for some reason. The requirements for fedora-logos 
> and generic-logos however are similar, which leads me to conclude 
> everything appropriate /is/ in fact being pulled in a transaction set. I'm 
> wondering what else may be going wrong.
>
> I was thinking this may be caused by different %postinstall scripts for the 
> fedora-logos and generic-logos packages[3], but I'm not sure it is.
>
> Then, nim-nim mentioned on #fedora-devel it could have to do with fonts 
> packages. I composed the DVD with full debug logging on, so it's rather 
> large[4] (and bloated -18MB). I've grepped on font to get anything related 
> to fonts[5] (~352K).
>
> Could someone give me a push in the right direction?

Can you compare the package set on the compose?

By 'result' you mean the installer, not live, correct? What appears
to have happend is you didn't include the @fonts group in your compose,
so you have no fonts for anaconda to use.

Bill




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