[Fedora-spins] Fun with pungi

[Bryan Kearney]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
> | On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 22:45 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> |> The packages seem to be excluded a bit further up:
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> |> http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/files/pungi-i386.log
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> | Well now that's interesting.  I wonder if pungi and livecd-creator
> | handle excludes differently.  Definitely worth checking out, thanks for
> | bringing this up.
> |
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> Yeah, pungi and livecd-tools do treat excludes differently; I've brought
> up a similar issue before:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-July/msg00106.html
> 
> pungi extends the yum exclude list, eliminating the packages from the
> package sack (src/pypungi/__init__.py:339), and those will thus not be
> available during package selection, nor dependency resolving, nor
> whatever other stage except buildinstall.
> 
> livecd-tools only removes the packages in the exclude list after the
> complete groupLst and packageLst have been selected. Ergo, after
> dependency resolving, "excluded" packages may have been pulled back in.

Is one of these approaches "correct"?

--bk