[Fedora-livecd-list] PowerPC support.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Apr 30 19:38:58 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:33 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:31 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > 2,  Remove syslinux from package lists; add it dynamically instead.
> > 
> > The only problem with this is that it somewhat breaks the abstraction --
> > maybe some distro using livecd-tools needs the isolinux package for
> > those bits.  Does an error get raised with non-existent packages right
> > now?
> 
> Yes. Although there is perhaps some logic in using --skip-broken.

--skip-broken doesn't really apply here; it falls back to keeping an
installed version of a package if what you try to select doesn't upgrade
cleanly.

We should just be doing the right thing as far as skipping non-existent
packages if you're using %packages --ignoremissing, much like anaconda
does

Jeremy




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