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[Bryan Kearney]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 09:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Livecd-creator unlike Pungi doesn't make the process of generating 
>> equivalent source ISO images very easy. If we fix that, this task would 
>> become less cumbersome. How do you manage it for spins that Fedora 
>> itself distributes?
>>
> 
> Since Fedora itself distributes it, we can rely on the srpms that are
> part of the Everything tree.  We treat it all as a single unit of
> distribution, and retire it as a single unit of distribution.
> 
> I realize that it is cumbersome at the moment to discover/gather the
> srpms for a Live spin.  Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to
> implement source gathering in livecd-creator.  I hope to look at it
> after Fedora 10 goes out the door and I actually have some development
> time at my disposal (unless somebody beats me to it).

David huff has started to look at this for appliance creation with the 
goal of pushing it up to the livecd tools where possible.

-- bk