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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:04 -0400, Elias Hunt wrote:
> Original patch had a typo. I've also moved the setting of excludedocs to
> the top of the installPackages() function as suggested.

Thanks!

> During testing I got this error:
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pykickstart/options.py:83:
> DeprecationWarning: Ignoring deprecated option on line 14:  The
> --excludedocs option has been deprecated and no longer has any effect.
> It may be removed from future releases, which will result in a fatal
> error from kickstart.  Please modify your kickstart file to remove this
> option.
[snip]
> Are we sure that kickstart isn't planning to get rid of that option? Or
> is this just a symptom of my using a Fedora 7 build system?

We had talked about it at one point.  Given kickstart being used beyond
anaconda, I talked Chris into pulling the deprecated bit and so the
warning will be gone as of pykickstart-1.16

> Either way, I've just completed a test burn and it appears that docs,
> info and man pages were not installed to the CD, as expected. There were
> some directories and symlinks created within those directories, but I'd
> assume that is bad behavior in various RPMs and has nothing to do with
> the functionality within livecd-creator.

Yep, sounds good.  Applied the patch to my tree and pushed to the git
master.

Thanks!

Jeremy