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

[James Gallagher]

--- Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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Warren

That's a very silly attitude. What harm can there be
from an extra 20mb of rpms which would help in dozens
of scenarios? I hope your opinion is  not the
consensus on the mailing list, I would be very
disappointed

james



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