[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- proposal for livecd filesystem layout changes
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Thu Sep 20 23:45:30 UTC 2007
Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>
>>> How about we split livecd-iso-to-disk into its own package,
>>> specifically because of the use-case scenario of a user just wanting
>>> to put their newly downloaded f8-livecd on usb, without any need or
>>> interest in full-blown livecd-creation?
>>>
>>> And install it by default, perhaps even in the minimal base spin config?
>>
>> This sounds like a good idea especially if we provide a menu option to
>> make this feature more visible to users and reviewers who don't read
>> the release notes which is unfortunately quite a lot.
>
> I could throw together a ghetto zenity gui pretty quickly. The only
> user interaction is
>
> a) selecting iso
> - for the gui, this could be handled by zenity file-selection, or the
> default would be to use /dev/live if it exists (i.e. /dev/live is the
> accessible block device representing the currently booted livecd).
and d) for DUH... selecting the partition/device, which could be a
selection amongst /dev/disk/by-id/
> b) bypassing checkisomd5 if it fails
> - this is easily enough a zenity question, or perhaps just make it a
> pure failure case for the gui
>
> c) livecd-iso-to-disk result text output, either success, or failure for
> some reason. Easy enough to dump to a zenity dialog.
>
> I'm curious, what kind of deadlines should I be thinking about for this
> and other livecd related things.
>
> I.e. the f8 devel freeze is Oct 4th, as of f8t3 release. But then there
> is an f8t3 devel freeze as of Sept 25th (along with translation freeze).
>
> What sort of development is considered acceptable between those two dates?
>
> Obviously I would like to get anything in by say... tonight, so that
> Jeremy has time to decide to accept it and commit it before tuesday,
> and then not try to get anything in after that.
>
> And would this theoretical gui livecd-iso-to-disk separate package fall
> outside the scope of even the oct-4th devel freeze, because it is a
> 'new' package?
>
> -dmc
>
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