[Fedora-livecd-list] Kickstart templating and localized spins

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Hello there,

The Spin SIG is interested in "templating" kickstarts or finding other 
means in which it can easily test and approve localized spins, and other 
community spins, from a technical point of view.

The idea I had is to build a certain spin concept with two basic 
kickstart files, and a "localization kickstart"; a higher-level 
kickstart including the lower-level kickstart. Here's an overview of the 
idea:

fedora-live-base.ks
   Includes everything needed to make a live spin work.

fedora-live-desktop.ks
   Includes everything needed to make the 'desktop' spin concept work,
   but no localization. Includes fedora-live-base.ks.

fedora-live-desktop-<lang>.ks
   Includes localization bits (lang, keyboard, timezone,
   @<lang>-support). Includes fedora-live-desktop.ks.

Maybe create fedora-live-desktop-default.ks to provide the default 
compose the way it is now (localization is en_US, includes @*-support).

More information (and more up-to-date information) is at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Spins/KickstartPool

A sample set of kickstarts is at:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=tree

Although possibly a futile point at this moment; A stock Fedora 8 
compose from the kickstarts currently in livecd-tools' GIT repo 
(including updates!), and one that only includes @dutch-support (new 
model, also including updates).

[jmeeuwen at bofh005 spin-kickstarts]$ du -sh *.iso
775M    livecd-fedora-8-desktop-200804131637.iso
703M    livecd-fedora-live-desktop-nl_NL-200804131550.iso

I'd appreciate feedback from you ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip