[Fedora-livecd-list] RE: Fedora-livecd-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 25

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Lehal Parminder (GS-FI/ENG3-NA) wrote:
> > How can we create a live CD containing files which are not in a RPM?
> > More specifically, I need to create a live CD containing tomcat and a
> > custom web application(jsp). The custom web application is in war
> > format. Is it possible to do it without creating a rpm for the custom
> > app?
> 
> I mentioned in a prior mail that I'm a bit annoyed by this as well.  I may whip 
> up a simple patch allowing args to livecd-creator to throw in extra directories.
> 
> For now, I think the best way is to use the --shell option, and then do 
> something like 'ls -altr /var/tmp/livecd-creator*' to find the installation root 
> to copy your files into.  But NOTE- you would have to do this in ANOTHER 
> terminal, because in the shell livecd-creator gives you, you are stuck in the 
> chroot.

You can also grab things in your config's %post section.  That's what
I've done in the past to accomplish this.  I stuck files up on a
webserver and just grabbed them with wget

Jeremy