[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH]: Fix --base-on

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:14 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:58 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> >> TODO: since livecd-tools was added to the dev-spin, it seems like the 
> >> most obvious minimal QA that should be done is to boot an RC of the 
> >> dev-livecd, mount some tmpspace, and then run livecd-creator (with 
> >> --tmpdir) with --base-on pointing at /dev/live, to see if you can easily 
> >> perform some minimal respin.  E.g. perhaps just kickstart that adds a 
> >> couple new packages, maybe adds a 3rd party repo, and changes the 
> >> isolinux splash.  And as a second QA test, respin itself without the 
> >> base-on option.
> > 
> > Accepting patches :-)   I think the biggest thing is being able to
> > (easily) hook in something automated to run as part of the live boot.
> > While it's easy enough to add something to run anaconda as Rahul asked
> > about, being able to run anything generically is a bit trickier.
> 
> Hmm.  I wasn't talking about any patches in the above, unless of course 
> the QA shows that something doesn't work.
>
> As for what you said, and Rahul- It sounded like he wanted something 
> akin to the traditional installer.  I.e. anaconda fullscreen with no 
> windowmanager or desktop. 

Right -- the two are different.  The main connection is "args coming
from the command line".  And I'm trying something now which would do
Rahul's request.  If it works, it might be worth having available and
undocumented.

>  Can you give an example or two of things that 
> would be supported in the generic case that you speak of?  Are we 
> talking something crazy like a kernel cmdline of 
> "autorun='firefox file:///usr/share/doc/fedora/releasenotes'"

Something like that.  Or perhaps to run an arbitrary dogtail script
after the user logs in.  Yes, really crazy.  But if we want to get to
where the QA is being done in an automated fashion, crazy is probably
the only way to get there :-/

Jeremy