[Fedora-livecd-list] pilgrim livecd work

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 20 15:13:55 UTC 2006


David Zeuthen wrote:
> (adding back fedora-desktop-list as that Cc: field mysteriously
> vanished.)
> 
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 03:05 -0500, Jasper Hartline wrote:
>> You really should use the stock Fedora Core utilities however.
>> If you are making an installer to system from LiveCD, why not use Anaconda?
> 
> I'd rather ask; Why use anaconda? At the end of the day, installation is
> a pretty basic task
> 
>  - yum install what you want
>  - write out some configuration files
>  - perform other post-installation configuration.
> 
> So, you know, I'd hate to replace < 100 lines of code by depending on
> anaconda, which, I might add, is designed to do far more than the
> relatively straightforward task of doing live cd's. I'm not even sure it
> makes sense to carry around code in anaconda to facilitate live cd
> installs but I'll leave that judgement call to the Anaconda developers.
> 
> FWIW, yum works perfectly fine and one goal of the pilgrim effort is to
> make the process as robust as possible as well as being able to run on
> host OS'es that are not super current. For example, the image I linked
> to are built on an x86_64 RHEL4 box (though I had to put yum 2.9.* on
> it).
> 
> There's also an historical angle here - pilgrim is the successor to the
> now defunt olpc-image tools. Anaconda simply didn't allow to be used in
> this way.

David,

How do you plan on performing upgrades when the live cd gets a install 
to hard disk feature?

Rahul




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