[Fedora-livecd-list] What's needed to bring latest Fedora LiveCD Tools up to RHEL 5?

[Bryan J Smith]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:41 -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> It's now clear I will make the time to help do this, as the LiveCD build
> system seems to be the best way to accomplish many goals I have.  Some
> of this may require a fork of select packages from RHEL mainstream, I
> understand this.  It's an external requirement in my case.
> 
> livecd-tools is currently release 013-5.el5 in EPEL for RHEL 5
> 
> I know several have mentioned other components are involved.  E.g., as
> Rahul pointed to me earlier, the CentOS guys have updated several
> components in their project (pykickstart, etc...):   
>   http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/i386/live/RPMS/  
> 
> Ultimately I would like to make the system more flexible for various
> boots, if possible with that same framework.  But that's more eccentric
> to my needs.  I'd just like to address the few differences between
> Fedora and RHEL, even if that means a few packages are forked and
> unsupported (at least outside of GPS ;).

[ I accidentally hit send before this was complete. ]

So, other than the changelogs and some diffs (and the CentOS 5 LiveCD
changes), what are the big showstoppers to things not working for RHEL?
Is there already some notes somewhere on this?  Thanx!


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