Release criterion proposal: live image persistence

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 10:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 04:42 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > > So, I'm proposing a criterion for Final:
> > > 
> > > * It must be possible to create a USB stick from a live image, using
> > > the
> > > appropriate Fedora tool, with a persistent storage overlay for the
> > > entire system and/or a separate overlay for the /home directory
> > 
> > ACK for the idea, but I think we should clearly state whether we require _some_ supported tool to be able to create it, or all of them. Because we have two tools that can do it, livecd-iso-to-disk and Fedora LiveUSB Creator, right?
> > 
> > What if one of them works (in terms of persistent storage) and the other doesn't?
> 
> I actually forgot about luc.
> 
> Still, in terms of release criticality, the important thing is whether
> there are issues in the _image_ which prevent the feature working. The
> tools are in the same kind of status as preupgrade - they don't really
> affect the freeze/ship cycle at all.
> 
> So I'm kinda in two minds about whether to pull it in...

How about, as a patch, 'appropriate Fedora tools' rather than
'appropriate Fedora tool'?
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