Livecd-creator and source rpms

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

If I am building and distributing a ISO containing Fedora packages, I 
would also want to distribute the equivalent source ISO. Unlike Pungi 
which does this by default, livecd-creator doesn't seem to have a easy 
way to do this. It especially becomes tricky if I am including not just 
the GA packages but also including updates. Can livecd-creator be 
modified to build source ISO images as well?

Rahul

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 02:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> If I am building and distributing a ISO containing Fedora packages, I 
> would also want to distribute the equivalent source ISO. Unlike Pungi 
> which does this by default, livecd-creator doesn't seem to have a easy 
> way to do this. It especially becomes tricky if I am including not just 
> the GA packages but also including updates. Can livecd-creator be 
> modified to build source ISO images as well?

I'm sure it could.  Somebody just has to do the work to add that
functionality.  I'm sure some of the pungi code could be stolen or made
a generic utility and used directly to determine which srpms to grab.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 02:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > If I am building and distributing a ISO containing Fedora packages, I 
> > would also want to distribute the equivalent source ISO. Unlike Pungi 
> > which does this by default, livecd-creator doesn't seem to have a easy 
> > way to do this. It especially becomes tricky if I am including not just 
> > the GA packages but also including updates. Can livecd-creator be 
> > modified to build source ISO images as well?
>
> I'm sure it could.  Somebody just has to do the work to add that
> functionality.  I'm sure some of the pungi code could be stolen or made
> a generic utility and used directly to determine which srpms to grab.

Could the common code be split out or IIRC, there was some mumbling 
about merging pungi and livecd-creator. What are the current thoughts on 
that?

Rahul

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 02:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > If I am building and distributing a ISO containing Fedora packages, I 
> > > would also want to distribute the equivalent source ISO. Unlike Pungi 
> > > which does this by default, livecd-creator doesn't seem to have a 
> > > easy way to do this. It especially becomes tricky if I am including 
> > > not just the GA packages but also including updates. Can 
> > > livecd-creator be modified to build source ISO images as well?
> >
> > I'm sure it could.  Somebody just has to do the work to add that
> > functionality.  I'm sure some of the pungi code could be stolen or made
> > a generic utility and used directly to determine which srpms to grab.
>
> Could the common code be split out or IIRC, there was some mumbling 
> about merging pungi and livecd-creator. What are the current thoughts on 
> that?

We had gotten the same requirement for the appliance building. We can 
get David Huff to help out. I will make sure he sees this thread :)

-- bk