livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:35:16PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'd strongly recommend oz-install ...
> >   https://github.com/clalancette/oz
> 
> Okay, so, sell me on this. I know Oz is popular, especially in the OpenStack
> world, so we definitely want to make sure it works with Fedora. But what's
> the advantage over livemedia-creator, if we were to rework the koji
> appliance build for either one?

One advantage is that Oz supports a great many different operating
systems (including even Windows).  Another is that it uses the actual
installer from the OS to do its business, whereas livecd-creator [not
used the newer livemedia-* stuff] does some sort of RPM-in-a-chroot
install.

oz-install doesn't need root (or shouldn't -- at one point it did, but
there was no reason for that and I asked Chris to change this).

So .. they're different things.  I'm still unclear what sort of
appliances you're trying to build and what for, and that will affect
what tool you decide to use.

Rich.

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