[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] -fs.py-kickstart.py-chages-for-mulit-partitions

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue May 27 17:01:43 UTC 2008


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> This I'm still not sure that I really want to be carrying in imgcreate. 
>    There's already a lot of overlap functionality-wise with anaconda and 
> I know that as soon as we start down this path, we'll end up having to 
> add all the other crud for various more "advanced" partitioning things 
> (especially LVM and dm-crypt).  Maintaining one copy of that kind of 
> code is enough for me ;-)
> 
> I'd be okay with adding the kickstart hunk, though.  And then there's 
> really not any big reason that I can see why you couldn't just have the 
> PartitionedDisk bits just in your caller rather than having them a part 
> of the main imgcreate API

... although I would still strongly ask the question of looking at what 
you're doing and seeing if it makes sense to build your images by 
actually going through an install (in a VM of some sort) rather than 
using imgcreate once you get to the point of needing partitions, etc

Jeremy




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