[Fedora-livecd-list] uncooked food for thought

Just thought I should should mention... That I've finally put most of the stuff I've been working on forever online. This is absolutely a broken work-in-progress release, and not yet the drop in functional replacement for livecd-tools that it will become (soon...). http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/viros/releases The interesting things it has (but again, in no way even a respectable development release), are- * a livecd generation mechanism that runs without root privileges, utilizing qemu * a tool 'smirfgen' which is like mayflower, but much more flexible * a live.init which is like the one embedded in mayflower, but much more flexible. * a tool qfakeroot, which is in the spirit of fakeroot, but can do even more stuff, such as trivially convert a tarball into an ext3 filesystem image, without root priveleges. Again, I don't expect this to be useful for anyone. But since I've alluded to it about half a million times over the past couple years on this list, I figured I'd mention the code availability. In the near future, perhaps before I clean it up to work as a drop in (no-root-privs-required) replacement for livecd-tools, I will try to release a version that can at least trivially modify the official f8-livecd iso image to support liveusb-persistence (again, without requireing root privs, via the coolness that is qfakeroot(&smirfgen). For now, perhaps the most interesting thing to look over, would be how I rewrote the init (tools/ZyX-Live-OS/live.init). And then perhaps look at how I abstracted what mayflower does, into smirfgen, and the tools/ZyX-Live-OS/smirfgen.cfg. And then after that, realize that how those things make qfakeroot possible. And then imagine how qfakeroot could be used to remove all root-priv requirements from the entire fedora recompile process. peace... -jdog P.S.- for the love of democracy, help get Cheney impeached. I'd gladly trade a life in paradise for one of poverty if it meant that future generations would not inherit a world where Bill Clinton *WAS* impeached, and Dick Cheney *WASN'T*. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/