[fedora-arm] rootfs creation going forward

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Fri Jun 3 08:19:38 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 15:35 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> All other parts of fedora's release engineering take in kickstarts and spit 
> out the output.  I think that for going forward we should look at using 
> appliance-creator  which is part of the appliance-tools package to create the 
> root filesystems. it will let us feed in kickstarts and help make it easier for 
> those at home to play.  anyone want to start taking a look at what we would 
> need to do?

Yea, after the chat we had earlier I took away an action item of either
doing this or helping to find a willing volunteer :) I definitely think
this is the way to go prior to/and in addition to generally having
complete Anaconda support. Many ARM system behave exactly like
"appliances" and will never require a full blown installer.

Jon.




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