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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 17:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> fedora-live-base.ks
>    Includes everything needed to make a live spin work.

How does this differ from fedora-base-desktop.ks which we have today and
which is used as the basis for the Desktop, the KDE and the XFCE spins?

> 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).

Ummm, the configs for the way things are done today _have_ to exist in
some form.  Otherwise, it kind of breaks the ability for us to, you
know, release the distro ;-)  I really don't like -default, though.
'base' has been pretty good, but -base-base-desktop seems odd :)  

I'm not against the general idea, although it's really too late to make
changes to the configs we use for Fedora 9.

> 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).

Sure you're not building x86_64 images?  As that looks pretty close to
the x86_64 size.  If not, then ahh, the fun of the ever-growing distro!

Jeremy