[Fedora-livecd-list] OK, folks, where to now?

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Glen Eustace wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:34 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > Thanks to the efforts of Darko Ilic and those who supported him / went 
> > before him, we now have a spiffy tool that creates Fedora-based Live CDs.
> > 
> > Now what?
> 
> I would suggest that what has been produced is great but that it has a
> way to go before I would call it ready for the masses.

Ah.  Critique.  Excellent.  :)

But let's be specific.  Which component needs work, Kadischi or the Live 
CD that Kadischi produces, or both?  And are there bug reports in 
particular?
 
> > Well, I think it's time to start using Kadischi to create some Live CDs,
> > and thinking about whether we can bless these Live CDs with the Fedora
> > name, that's what.
> 
> If the tool is easy to use, then it is probably better to let people
> simply build what they want.

Oh, absolutely.  But having some "best in show" candidates is a good idea 
too, don't you think?

> > Any packages in Core+Extras for FC4 would probably be fair game, I would 
> > think.
> 
> This is an interesting one. As it stands, the build works from a single
> repo. To add in Extras means changes either in the way either anaconda
> and/or kadishi work.
> 
> But it is a good idea. At this time, I have had to manually merge
> fedora, fedora-updates and some of my own rpms to produce a single repo
> that the CD can be built from.

And how did you do that?  Did you put together a nifty HOWTO?  :)

--g

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