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

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 03:19:16 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:48:05PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 
> Its not available because ive not yet worked out the magic to be able
> to create a chroot with the target bits i.e. f18 and run
> livemedia-creator in the chroot and have it spin up a vm and do the
> install etc and work as it needs to. Its a case of where the tool was
> written without thought for the requirements on how it would be run.
> we have dedicated physical hardware for building the images on. thats
> not at all the issue. either im not clear in how i explain things or
> people are only half listening.

Actually it was. That's one of the reasons why the --no-virt mode was
added. The primary goal for livemedia-creator was to use the same
codepath for creating installed systems and livemedia, not to duplicate
how livecd-creator works (basically a chrooted yum install).

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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