On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:27 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:07 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Sorry for being slow in reviewing patches; most of my time past two
> month been spent traveling and working on other features on Fedora 7.
> Enough with bad excuses. Anyway, looks like Jeremy and Bill been kicking
> ass writing patches so I've merged them all into master.
Cool, sounds good.
> Btw, Jeremy, where can I find a kickstart file?
I sent one with the initial kickstart patch. My current one doesn't
quite fit on a CD as I try to make it have roughly the same package set
as the default distro install does.
I tried this last night but livecd-creator fails without useful error
messages.. and cleanup don't work so I'm left with /dev/loop0 which is
mounted and I have to clean up by hand. Not to sound like a whiner
(though I probably am) but please fix look into this and make sure that
HEAD don't contain such errors in the future. HEAD should always be
working.
(FWIW, I think this is because yum is throwing exceptions left and right
when adding groups and packages.)
Yep, we definitely should. I'll try to get some of the README
bits and
the like updated over the next day or so.
Sounds good thanks.
> Will we have separate kickstart files per arch? I presume we
want the
> package selection to differ for x86_64, ppc and x86, just by virtue that
> it's going to be larger for the former two. Can Kickstart do this
> already?
There's no real reason that the kickstart config _has_ to be
different... size for ppc shouldn't be significantly different.
My tests some months ago showed this was the case though - around 20%
which is something we shouldn't ignore...
On
x86_64, doing a CD sized image is perhaps killing ourselves when we
shouldn't given the download numbers for CD vs DVD on x86_64. And we
don't want to reach the point where there aren't any useful apps on the
image.
Do we want to include 32-bit packages at all for x86_64? I don't see why
we would... what's the rationale?
Btw, you didn't answer my question though- can you do package selection
in kickstart based on what arch it is?
David