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> On 02/17/2010 10:36 AM, J.Heather@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> > > On 02/03/2010 03:32 AM, James Heather wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Intuitively the idea seems sensible: unpack the squashfs image
> > > > somewhere, chroot, yum install blither (using whatever repos are
> > > defined
> > > > inside the image), repack.
> > >
> > > A while Ago I posted a script to the list that does just this:
> > >
> > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/attachments/20090922/85
> > > 647312/attachment.py
> > >
> > >
> > > I am still looking for feed back on this script. I would like to see
> > > something like this included in livecd-tools, especially now that there
> > > seems to be some interest in this.
> >
> > Ah, that's great. I wasn't subscribed at that point so I missed it. I'll have
> > a look.
> >
> > It occurs to me that there's a more general way of doing this that might also
> > be useful, which is to rebuild the squashfs image by combining it with the
> > persistent overlay. In other words, inject the overlay contents into the
> > squashfs and repack.
>
> James, thanks for the feedback.  I am open to any suggestions on a
> better way to do this.  Initially we were using a "simple" bash script,
> and this was an attempt to incorporate the existing livecd-tools work
> for a better way of editing a livecd.iso.
>
> One issues we were seeing with the bash script was the image size would
> increase dramatically, just but unpacking editing a file and repacking.
>    We were hoping that by reusing the livecd code we could also reuse the
> image-minimizing stuff and not see this large size increase.
>
>
> -David
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