Pungi features - (was: Is pungi the preferred composer for installers?)

[Jesse Keating]

On 1/19/11 3:50 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>> Pungi is what is used for the install images released by the Fedora Project.
>> So for install images it makes sense to use that tool.
>
> Thanks! So we turn to trying to do what I used to do with revisor,
> which I am not sure pungi supports
>
>   - A custom, locally defined comps file -- how is that done for Spins?
> For example, how would you build the server spin based on the files at
> http://dmach.fedorapeople.org/server-spin/ ?

You can, kindof.  You'd have to make sure that pungi only looks at the 
comps data you want to provide, and that comps data has to be in one of 
the repos you are using (which could just be an empty repo with the 
comps data in it).  If you use the "--ignoregroups" option to the repo 
command in your kickstart file, pungi won't process any group data from 
that particular repo.  This will allow you to use the public Fedora 
repos but not the groupdata from them.

>   - Can I copy a kickstart file in the resulting iso?

That is a feature pungi doesn't have yet.  There is an open bug for it, 
but no code.

>
>   - Can I set the syslinux menu? What I normally do is set the defaul
> menu item to use the provided ks...

That feature doesn't exist either.  As a work around (for the last two 
items) you can run pungi to gather, createrepo, and run build install 
(GCB), then manually modify the syslinux files and put the ks file you 
want in place, then run the make iso step of pungi (-I).


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