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

[Tim Wood]

Jeroen,  Double plus good.  The basic division of labor looks right to 
me ... for what that's worth ;-)

Anything that people might want to overide that can't be overidden 
should be moved to the 'top' level kickstart.  I can't remember what 
things fall into that category, but candidates that come to mind include 
repositories, timezone and (possibly) networking.  I believe these would 
generally go into the localization kickstart.

Similarly, there are certain packages that are currently included in the 
low level kickstarts that (1) arn't actually necessary and (2) some 
people don't want.  SE Linux comes to mind.  I suspect those items would 
generally be grouped under the live-desktop.ks.

Tim


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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
>
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