We have been working on a bash script used for opening up livecd images
to add and/or edit files with out having to rebuild the iso image.
This script is useful for people who don't have the development and yum
infrastructure/repos set up to build livecd's from scratch. This is
especially useful for custom livecd images, like the ovirt-node project[1].
We agree that changes to packaging and binaries should always be done by
modifying kickstart and rebuilding the image via livecd-creator. But if
all you want to do is add/edit a config file, public key for SSH, or
change the root password this can be done with the edit-livecd script.
This is the second generation of the edit-livecd tool that replaces our
original bash script with a python version and aims to reuse as much as
the livecd-creator libraries as possible. The main reason for the new
creator class is to avoid the need for a kisckstart file in order to
edit an existing livecd image.
I am Looking for comments and feedback on this approach. We would
eventual like for something like this to be included in Livecd-tools,
and if this approach is accepted I will work to break this out into
smaller patches and submit to the list.
-D
[1]
http://ovirt.org