[Fedora-livecd-list] Trimming the size of LiveCD's

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:26 -0400, Elias Hunt wrote:
> Since rpm itself already supports the --excludedocs argument, does yum
> support passthrough? If so could livecd-creator also support passthrough
> in some way? I looked at the livecd-creator code in hopes of being able
> to submit a patch myself, but I understand entirely too little of the
> yum api and whether or not it would support passing along standard rpm
> arguments or if yum itself might need to be modified.

It should be pretty straight-forward.  pykickstart already parses a
--excludedocs argument to %packages.  When that argument is given, we
just need to set the rpm macro _excludedocs to 1.  If someone wants to
whip up the patch, I would have no problem at all applying it

Jeremy