[Fedora-livecd-list] Some braindumping

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 22:54 +0100, tony wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 12:15 -0500, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> > * 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"
> 
> Now I understand... Jeez all those hours wasted looking at this from all
> angles...
> 
> Jeremy you got anything else you must tell us? =:-D

Heh, that was what was on the top of my head.  Just was traveling all
week (my first batch of mail was the first time I was in the airport,
this was from my flight back :-)

> The language stuff I just nuke in my comps.xml, my live CD must be
> French and English period.

That doesn't ensure that the mo files from /usr/share/locale aren't
installed

> What about ssh keygen? How does one get around that? I am thinking along
> the lines of someone wanting to ssh from work into a VDR based PVR, his
> mom has to reboot the computer and it takes ages to generate keys...

I think you actually really do want to generate the keys everytime.
Otherwise, it's confusing when you move a live cd from one machine to
another.  Possibly having a way to keep various state items (including
this) on something like a USB key or a partition makes sense, but you
almost certainly don't want it on the CD.

Jeremy