--- Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Did I misunderstand what James asked? It sounded
like he wanted to add
a whole bunch of additional packages to the standard
LiveCD's in order
to allow building out-of-tree kernel modules. If
this is the case then
the answer is NO because:
1) It is not a priority of Fedora to support
proprietary kernel modules
(ndiswrapper). (Aside from that, can you even use
ndiswrapper reliably
with Fedora's 4KB kernel stacks?)
2) Doing so would bloat the LiveCD's much larger
than the limits that
would fit onto a CD.
If someone wants to do this for their own personal
LiveCD they are free
to do whatever they want.
Warren
Tim Wood wrote:
> I can try and draft a kickstart (even if it's not
up to me to include it
> in livecd-tools proper). Looking at what you've
got below, I can think
> of two issues. First, the minimal image on F8
doesn't allow login so
> I'll have to work around that. Second, the list
below is not the
> complete list of needed packages for a LiveCD so
I'll have to work out
> the packages to include. James, if I do come up
with a kickstart, would
> you be willing to test it. Also, does anyone have
any other
> thoughts/warnings before I start hacking?
> Tim
> James Gallagher wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please can you include a minimal development
>> envrionment on the LiveCD release, in F8 it's
less
>> than 20mb, the files required are
>>
>>
>> binutils-2.17.50.0.18-1.i386.rpm
>> gcc-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
>> glibc-devel-2.7-2.i386.rpm
>> glibc-headers-2.7-2.i386.rpm
>> kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i686.rpm
>> kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i386.rpm
>> libgomp-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
>> make-3.81-10.fc8.i386.rpm
>> patch-2.5.4-30.fc8.i386.rpm
>>
>>
>> This enables installing ndiswrapper, madwifi
drivers
>> etc without an internet connection
>>
>> Cheers :)
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Warren
That's a very silly attitude. What harm can there be
from an extra 20mb of rpms which would help in dozens
of scenarios? I hope your opinion is not the
consensus on the mailing list, I would be very
disappointed
james
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