[Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi: roadmap from Board meeting ?

[Jasper O'neal Hartline]

Jane Dogalt wrote:

>4) run as user, not root (thus build system cannot be corrupted by liveiso
>generator bugs)
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The first thing I can think of with this as a problem is Anaconda RPMdb 
locks and mkinitrd.
Running Anaconda to do these things requires root privs, so this would 
probably mean
Anaconda should be modified. mkinitrd must also currently be run as root.

>7) selinux, via ext2 image as an option
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I think xattrs support in SquashFS is what we want.

>8) feature flag to remove fedora/rh art/trademarks from target so that output
>can be redistributed as a new distribution without any special permission from
>fedora/rh.
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Now this is really strange, Kadischi is a tool to yes, to create LiveCD 
media..
but to create Fedora Core CD media. Although Rahul mentions running 
Anaconda in Debian
may be possible, I don't think right now is the time to be focusing any 
efforts on running Kadischi
on everything but Fedora Core. Likewise in this same respect, Kadischi 
shouldn't be focusing
on allowing users to build thier own "distribution". It is a LiveCD tool 
not a distribution tool.

I'm not saying it can't be done, sure it could.
I just don't think it is Kadischi's job to help user's build thier own 
distribution's LiveCD.
This is something the user should be doing, not Kadischi.

Take for instance I want to build a new distribution that will be 
deployed to a few people somewhere..
I get Kadischi, modify it a bit to do what I need in that particular 
case, and use it.
If this involves removing trademarks and artwork, so be it that is my 
responsibility as a user.
Just my 2 cents.

J. Hartline