pungi used to create CD that includes a kickstart file

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Wed Jun 13 12:58:38 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 21:09:14 Martin Steinmann wrote:
>> I don't quite understand why you had to tweak the release note mechanism or
>> even change the initrd.img file. All I would need is a %post section in the
>> manifest file that would allow me to copy the kickstart file into the tree
>> before genisoimage is run. In addition, I need to modify the isolinux.cfg
>> file to add the kickstart kernel parameter. The rest is then done by
>> Anaconda during stage 2.
> 
> Actually what needs to happen is the releasenotes stuff needs to be renamed to 
> something more generic like extrafiles or whatnot.  Really the methodology is 
> it looks for a list of file regexes in a list of packages you give it that 
> are in your tree and it extracts those files onto the root of the iso file 
> system and install tree.  This can be used for not just release notes, but 
> for kickstart files, autorun files, whatever else you may want in the root.
> 

We're gonna do the same thing here, except that we also want to be able 
to add non-RPM based files to the images, for example a complete 
directory tree. Is that being added to pungi as well?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip




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