Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Support for custom configuration using python templates
Hi,
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:53 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
Any suggestions? I am willing to do the code myself but in the lack
of any interest I'm going to end up creating a one off solution, so
mucho input is desired.
I think munging configuration files might be outside the scope of the
livecd-tools project; sure, granted it's something people want to do but
often it's used as a hack; for example on my system
$ rpm -qf /etc/issue
fedora-release-6.93-1
so I think what you *could* do instead is to have olpc-release or
similar on OLPC provide that file (would be based on fedora-release). Of
course, since /etc/issue is marked as %config(noreplace) in the
fedora-release it's still sane for you to edit it in %post. I guess it
all depends on the configuration file in question.
So I think my point of view right now is that it's good enough to do
this in %post for most cases; I mean, if downstreams (like OLPC) need to
change a ton of configuration files/defaults perhaps there is something
broken with the apps you try to include?
Perhaps you can come up with concrete examples of what configuration
files / defaults you need to edit /change? I think that would be useful.
Thanks.
David