[Fedora-livecd-list] kadischi - comments

[Glen Eustace]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:54 +0200, Darko Ilic wrote:
> On the page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KadischiDoc we have a chapter called 
> "How to build a repository" (I think I wrote it yesterday) so it shouldn`t be 
> a problem anymore :)

Great, I'll go read it shortly.

> Which means you didn`t change productPath variable in 
> file /usr/lib/anaconda/product.py like I wrote in installation 
> instructions :) Since I received a couple of similar complaints, it would 
> really help me if you told me have you read the documentation and still had 
> this unclear, or you just skipped the documentation? In other words - should 
> I work on the style and quality of documentation, or I should concentrate on 
> making documentation more available?

I read what was provided, but obviously missed it. If this is a
requirement, then how about including it in the anaconda patching
process so that it doesn't get missed.

> > - Accessed via http, couldn't work out how to get file:// working.
> 
> Actually, for the repository that is on your hard drive, you only have to 
> provide a path, without any prefixes. For example:
> 
> root# kadischi /tmp/fc4 /tmp/livecd.iso 

I tried various combinations of this without success.  I'll give it
another go as using http probably is slower even though it was on the
same machine.

> > 2. Lots of errors from anaconda while processing the hdlist, but at this
> > stage nothing appears to be fatal.
> 
> It`s on the TODO list already...

I did a text-mode build so they splattered all over the screen.

> 628MB is the minimal installation. Shorter selection of packages would result 
> in broken dependencies. We had this topic on the list a few days ago...

In my earlier attempts using YETAAA, I have managed to remove lots of
stuff from the BASE and got it down to less than 500Mb even after adding
'firefox' and its dependencies. So I think there is still too much in
Base that isn't needed, particularly if one is trying to build CDs for
specific purposes. e.g. all the compiler stuff, yum, rpm etc. One
doesn't update a CD distribution one makes another.

> Well, basically,  we want changes to be reproducible and doing stuff by hand 
> isn't. There are ways to perform customization with Kadischi, and I will 
> write a couple of words on the subject very soon (today or something). 
> Checkout http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KadischiDoc later.

I would want reproducibility too, which means scripting is the correct
approach. Whether that should be in an RPM on added to Kadischi, I don't
know.

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