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[Chitlesh GOORAH]

hello everyone,
We are looking forward for a meeting next week.

Ive designed the TODO List  in accordance to the priority of issues,
just to get things started.
I don't know much about the following issues, which were listed during
the presence of the presence maintainer. Im calling if anyone wants to
grab one of the following feel free.

inform us about your choice ( in the wiki / on the maliling list). and
if you do have other issues that you want to add. Do go on. Add them.

These were the last issues. (were these completed?)

 * !! examine patches to anaconda. Some steps that would anaconda
normally run are skipped in --livecd mode, and it isn`t checked is it
100% safe to do

 * tweak firstboot so we could use it for system configuration

 * fix the problem with HWADDRs in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

 * fix the problem with fonts.dir (during system startup)

 * provide a way to strip down languages (from /usr/share/local) and
docs (/usr/share/doc)

 * implement SquashFS (right now it works with zisofs)

 * modify syslog and other things that log to keep shorter logs

 * improve build system (work around .am and .ac files, build RPMs)

 * implement backup/restore function for config files and used data
(use linux4all b/r as a starting point)

 * make SELinux work on live system

 * make kadischi forward command line options to anaconda (so it would
be possible to pass options to anaconda)

 * modify anaconda to calculate expected size of iso image during
package selection (when run in --livecd mode)

 * work around config file (make anaconda ignore %livecd section, make
kadischi able to read that section)

 * create (and integrate) fancy little gui


Ive added my responsibilities. You can do the same :)

Chitlesh GOORAH
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

[Jeremy Katz]

Not claiming anything, but trying to provide some useful direction.
Unfortunately, time is one thing I don't really have a surplus of at the
moment :-/

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 23:11 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>   * !! examine patches to anaconda. Some steps that would anaconda
>  normally run are skipped in --livecd mode, and it isn`t checked is it
>  100% safe to do 
Unless there's a valid reason not to use --rootpath, it's probably
better to use it.  This will require a little bit of work to get the
step skipping correct for the changes in anaconda in FC5

>   * tweak firstboot so we could use it for system configuration
I'm still not convinced that running firstboot is even really
required...

>   * fix the problem with HWADDRs in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* 
One thought would be to actually try to move towards using
NetworkManager -- this is the eventual direction we want to move for the
distro in general, and live CDs could really start going in the right
direction

>   * fix the problem with fonts.dir (during system startup)
>   * provide a way to strip down languages (from /usr/share/local) and
>  docs (/usr/share/doc) 
See my mails from earlier today for more on this

>   * implement SquashFS (right now it works with zisofs)
>   * modify syslog and other things that log to keep shorter logs
>   * improve build system (work around .am and .ac files, build RPMs)
>   * implement backup/restore function for config files and used data
>  (use linux4all b/r as a starting point)
>   * make SELinux work on live system 
This will require implementing xattrs for squashfs -- I know the
maintainer has thought about it, but I don't think he's really started
working on it.

>   * make kadischi forward command line options to anaconda (so it
> would
>  be possible to pass options to anaconda)
>   * modify anaconda to calculate expected size of iso image during
>  package selection (when run in --livecd mode)
>   * work around config file (make anaconda ignore %livecd section, make
>  kadischi able to read that section)
>   * create (and integrate) fancy little gui 
Jeremy

[J. Hartline]

Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Unless there's a valid reason not to use --rootpath, it's
> probably
> better to use it.  This will require a little bit of work to get the
> step skipping correct for the changes in anaconda in FC5
>
>   
>  
I've been juggling FC5tx around, and I see no reason why rootpath will 
not work.
A few things like you stated should be changed however, most notably the
reaching a partitioning screen.

> > * implement SquashFS (right now it works with zisofs)
> > 
> >    
> >
>
> This will require implementing xattrs for squashfs -- I know the
> maintainer has thought about it, but I don't think he's really started
> working on it.
>   
>  
Could you elaborate shortly on why xattrs is neccessary for utilizing 
SquashFS?

J. Hartline

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 02:36 -0600, J. Hartline wrote:
>  Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  >> * implement SquashFS (right now it works with zisofs)
>  >
>  >This will require implementing xattrs for squashfs -- I know the
>  >maintainer has thought about it, but I don't think he's really started
>  >working on it.
>  >
>  Could you elaborate shortly on why xattrs is neccessary for utilizing 
>  SquashFS? 
Not for squashfs in general, but to get support for SELinux

Jeremy