[Fedora-livecd-list] Some braindumping

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jeremy Katz wrote:

>I spent a little bit of time a few months ago looking at Kadischi and
>sent Darko a bit of feedback (also based on some mail from him on what
>he saw the next steps as being).  So, I figure it's time that I take
>that information and dump it for the wider audience now.
>
>Most of the suggestions are from the standpoint of trying to minimize
>the delta needed for creating a live CD and using existing
>infrastructure as much as possible (even in cases where that requires
>extending the infrastructure for things to work more cleanly).  In the
>longer term, they're the sorts of things that make it so that live CDs
>can be more prevalent in the Fedora space and require less special case
>work to maintain.
>
>* The initrds currently being generated by Kadischi are from a one off
>script rather than utilizing mkinitrd.  This means that you have to
>generate the initrd by hand afterwards instead of having the kernel post
>script do it for you.  It also means that changes have to be tracked in
>the Kadischi version of the script.  With the mkinitrd currently in
>rawhide, there is the ability to override commands from nash.  Also,
>with the support for handling multiple initramfs's, a secondary
>initramfs can be created that just has the overriden commands.  For
>ensuring that modules get included in the initrd, there is some support
>for overriding things that are detected via /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd --
>we probably want to make it so that anaconda ensures
>that /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd is generated correctly so the first time an
>initrd is created, it's "right"
>* The ro root initscripts changes need to be integrated.  But I think
>Bill is going to be actively working on this ;-)
>  
>
Is this part of Stateless Linux?

>* There's been an ongoing concern that including support for every
>language Core supports on the live CD leads to a lot of space usage and
>wanting to strip down the content of /usr/share/locale.  Instead of just
>nuking them in a post script, having a way to get anaconda to set %
>_install_langs isn't unreasonable, as long as it's not really being
>exposed in the UI of anaconda
>* What to do with firstboot?  Do we want to show it at all, only do a
>subset of the config options?
>  
>
Get rid of it and assume sane default and Fedora as a default user?

>* How well does the X autoconfig work currently?  I seem to remember it
>was working okay, so this might not be a huge concern
>  
>
Seems good. Low resolution in general but that might be safer.

-- 
Rahul 

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