What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:57:20AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 10:44, monty19@ hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> pungi is the software I wrote and continue to write to do this.  It is 
> available in Fedora Extras.  Using it against rawhide is a bit rough, given 
> how quickly rawhide is likely to break and to break the compose process, but 
> the end goal is that you install pungi, you can tweak a package manifest 
> (flat list of package names) a bit to suite your needs, then 
> run /usr/bin/pungi -c /etc/pungi/yourconf.  When it is done, you should have 
> a directory tree that is the exploaded install tree + iso sets.  There are 
> even folks working on graphical front ends to this so you can graphically 
> select your packages and push a button to get an end result.  This user 
> experience will improve over the course of Fedora 7 development, and beyond.  
> I hope that near the end of Fedora 7 development, when the tree has settled 
> down a bunch, it will be much easier for folks to do spins and to play with 
> the software.


> 
> That is what pungi does.  You hand it a list of packages you want, and a few 
> other config items, it finds those packages in yum repos, depsolves them, 
> downloads them, runs some anaconda tools on them, and produces a tree + iso 
> set.

Thank you. These comments answer some of my questions and help assuage
my concerns.

Perhaps one could use it to create a "pungi spin": A spin with pungi,
its deps, some related tools, network and ISO creation tools, and not
much else. Would all that fit onto a CD?

The user installs it, builds the custom install tree, and then
installs further from there. That would minimise traffic
considerably. It would require a bit of disk space, but even that is
preferable to slurping in several DVD-sized images with redundancies.

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