[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH]: Fix --base-on

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:58 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> TODO: since livecd-tools was added to the dev-spin, it seems like the 
>> most obvious minimal QA that should be done is to boot an RC of the 
>> dev-livecd, mount some tmpspace, and then run livecd-creator (with 
>> --tmpdir) with --base-on pointing at /dev/live, to see if you can easily 
>> perform some minimal respin.  E.g. perhaps just kickstart that adds a 
>> couple new packages, maybe adds a 3rd party repo, and changes the 
>> isolinux splash.  And as a second QA test, respin itself without the 
>> base-on option.
> 
> Accepting patches :-)   I think the biggest thing is being able to
> (easily) hook in something automated to run as part of the live boot.
> While it's easy enough to add something to run anaconda as Rahul asked
> about, being able to run anything generically is a bit trickier.

Hmm.  I wasn't talking about any patches in the above, unless of course 
the QA shows that something doesn't work.

As for what you said, and Rahul- It sounded like he wanted something 
akin to the traditional installer.  I.e. anaconda fullscreen with no 
windowmanager or desktop.  Can you give an example or two of things that 
would be supported in the generic case that you speak of?  Are we 
talking something crazy like a kernel cmdline of

"autorun='firefox file:///usr/share/doc/fedora/releasenotes'"

I'm just don't quite understand what you were getting at.

> 
>> And I would love it if the dev-livecd could include qemu (space 
>> impact?), so that the resulting livecd's could be virtually test booted 
>> trivially.
> 
> The developer config includes the virtualization group and thus should
> have qemu and kvm as well as virt-manager

cool.  I was lazy and just did a grep qemu.

-dmc