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!
The current livecd toolset for Fedora requires an updated anaconda
package that is not available under CentOS/RHEL 5. This is the main
problem preventing the use of the latest livecd-tools package under
CentOS/RHEL 5.
The anaconda package is taking care of the installation of the
distribution. Since CentOS is supporting its packages for 7 years,
introducing a new version of a critial package such as anaconda and
providing support for it would be unrealistic. Hence, the official
CentOS LiveCD is unable to support the latest livecd-tools.
For more information, see: