[Fedora-spins] remix-logos

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Mon Mar 9 12:21:36 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>> The -logos package in the creation of installation media gets chosen by 
>>>> product name, nowadays. You cannot pick a specific -logos package for 
>>>> the installer images build process to use although that was the first 
>>>> patch I attempted to get into anaconda.
>>>>
>>>> I can see the added value of having a remix-logos, but it's name is 
>>>> shorter then "fedora-logos" so I'm afraid it might start winning some 
>>>> yum-best-package selections.
>>> Is this affecting pungi or livecd-tools as well? I assume I can still 
>>> exclude fedora-logos and include remix-logos in a kickstart file for 
>>> live cds. If it does affect live image creation, what is the recommended 
>>> method to rebrand Fedora now?
>>>
>> The change in anaconda behaviour is affecting revisor and pungi, or 
>> actually installation media compose processes in general. That's a 
>> separate issue.
>>
>> My concern with regards to dependency resolving is that if you do not 
>> explicitly say you want fedora-logos, you end up with remix-logos being 
>> pulled in as the best provider for system-logos. So, this concern really 
>> applies to the situation in which one would not want to rebrand.
> 
> Well, ideally people would be inheriting the base ks file and getting it 
> automatically but if that is a real concern, let's call it 
> fedora-remix-logos and that name won't be the shortest anymore.
> 

Still a little patching would be required for anaconda I believe, to 
substitute spaces in the product name to a '-'. Either way, 
fedora-remix-logos seems to have a better chance! ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip



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