[Fedora-livecd-list] Minimal development environment on Livecd

[Warren Togami]

Did I misunderstand what James asked?  It sounded like he wanted to add 
a whole bunch of additional packages to the standard LiveCD's in order 
to allow building out-of-tree kernel modules.  If this is the case then 
the answer is NO because:

1) It is not a priority of Fedora to support proprietary kernel modules 
(ndiswrapper).  (Aside from that, can you even use ndiswrapper reliably 
with Fedora's 4KB kernel stacks?)
2) Doing so would bloat the LiveCD's much larger than the limits that 
would fit onto a CD.

If someone wants to do this for their own personal LiveCD they are free 
to do whatever they want.

Warren

Tim Wood wrote:
> I can try and draft a kickstart (even if it's not up to me to include it 
> in livecd-tools proper).  Looking at what you've got below, I can think 
> of two issues.  First, the minimal image on F8 doesn't allow login so 
> I'll have to work around that.  Second, the list below is not the 
> complete list of needed packages for a LiveCD so I'll have to work out 
> the packages to include.  James, if I do come up with a kickstart, would 
> you be willing to test it.  Also, does anyone have any other 
> thoughts/warnings before I start hacking?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> James Gallagher wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please can you include a minimal development
>> envrionment on the LiveCD release, in F8 it's less
>> than 20mb, the files required are
>>
>>
>> binutils-2.17.50.0.18-1.i386.rpm
>> gcc-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
>> glibc-devel-2.7-2.i386.rpm
>> glibc-headers-2.7-2.i386.rpm
>> kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i686.rpm
>> kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i386.rpm
>> libgomp-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
>> make-3.81-10.fc8.i386.rpm
>> patch-2.5.4-30.fc8.i386.rpm
>>
>>
>> This enables installing ndiswrapper, madwifi drivers
>> etc without an internet connection
>>
>> Cheers :)
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
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