[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 2/6] Setting the install_root

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> >> This enables other applications using livecd-creator as a backend
> >> application, while already having initialized a yum object configured
> >> with a certain installroot (which once the yum object is initialized,
> >> cannot be changed). Matching the build environment to what
> >> livecd-creator expects results in trouble with other builds running
> >> (eg., symlinking the actual yum installroot to "%s/install_root" %
> >> self.build_dir).
> > 
> > In practice, though, this is a bit of a moot point, since the API for
> > using livecd-creator is the command-line and passing it a kickstart
> > config.  At which point, the fact that you have another yum object
> > doesn't really make much difference...
>
> No matter what API you support, it doesn't prevent you from applying the
> patch. 

But why add (and therefore have to maintain, follow indirections and
then deal with potential odd fall-out) options that aren't ever going to
be hit or used?

Jeremy