[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 2/6] Setting the install_root

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>> This enables other applications using livecd-creator as a backend
>>>> application, while already having initialized a yum object configured
>>>> with a certain installroot (which once the yum object is initialized,
>>>> cannot be changed). Matching the build environment to what
>>>> livecd-creator expects results in trouble with other builds running
>>>> (eg., symlinking the actual yum installroot to "%s/install_root" %
>>>> self.build_dir).
>>> In practice, though, this is a bit of a moot point, since the API for
>>> using livecd-creator is the command-line and passing it a kickstart
>>> config.  At which point, the fact that you have another yum object
>>> doesn't really make much difference...
>> No matter what API you support, it doesn't prevent you from applying the
>> patch. 
> 
> But why add (and therefore have to maintain, follow indirections and
> then deal with potential odd fall-out) options that aren't ever going to
> be hit or used?
> 

Because we move forward and that's what we do. We focus on new features,
software and technology.

The issue of maintaining things on the long-term applies to anaconda,
pykickstart, it's deps. Not livecd-tools. Not Revisor either. Not at
this point in time anyway.

If maintaining the code is your biggest concern though... Try and assign
all livecd-tool's bugs to me.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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