Building my own livecd

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 08 February 2010 11:39 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 07.02.2010, 14:06 -0800 schrieb Suvayu Ali:
>
>> I found out why I couldn't switch to root, I hadn't set SELinux to
>> permissive before building the image. :) Just for my information, why do
>> we need SELinux to be in permissive mode? Is it a bug that is being
>> worked on, or is there something more subtle going on?
>
> Selinux works with rules based on names on file names/paths. During
> creation of the livecd, a complete installation is done within a chroot
> environment. This means that the complete set of rules would be required
> not only for the the host on which the image is created but also for the
> installation inside the chroot. This is hardly possible.

Thanks Christoph for the explanation, now it makes sense. :)

>> However the image size issue still remains. I guess I will have to drop
>> some more essential packages ... :(
>
> Use your current image to find out why a package was pulled in. Try to
> remove it with yum and you should see.

In the end I ended up doing it like that. :-p

> Regards,
> Christoph
>

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Suvayu

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