[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] --addXdir , facility to easily add external directories to target sysrootfs OR isofs

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:19 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> That doesn't really change anything, though.  It still fundamentally
>>> means that the image can't be reproducibly created from its config.
>> If reproducibility from a single text file config is that important to you, then 
>> you are correct.  Short of uuencoding tarballs, there is no way to get there 
>> from here.
> 
> We're already dependent on being able to get to the repo -- being
> dependent on grabbing things from a web server or similar also for
> "added" pieces isn't crazy I don't think.  Although doing it in a way
> that's flexible enough to _allow_ local files is fine, I don't want to
> be showing that as the "one true way"

I'd honestly by perfectly happy if they were completely undocumented options, 
except at the bottom of the existing /usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-version/HACKING 
file.

-dmc