On 10/22/2009 01:41 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
On 10/22/2009 07:36 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:04 -0400, David Huff wrote:
>> Can you provide me with more information on how this compose tool works.
>> I would like to better understand the process in order to determine how
>> we can make this easier.
>
> All the other spins use livecd-creator, the same arguments, and all
> build on the fedora-live-base.ks file. AOS uses appliance-creator, has
> different arguments, and uses a different base ks file. That's what
> makes it harder to produce.
>
It doesn't necessarily use a different tool though; the AOS kickstart
works with just livecd-tools; it's just that they want a partioned
disk.img in a .tar.gz that makes it need a different util.
Whether it does or does not use fedora-live-base.ks shouldn't be a problem.
Well the initial goal was to develop a base appliance "image," which
would specify a minimal package set that could be expanded upon.
We went the spin route b/c it seemed like the right way/place to address
building Fedora based "images" and get some community involvement. The
problem we are hitting is that an "Image" is not the same as a spin,
currently a spin is nothing but a livecd iso image.
Idealy a spin could be something other that just a livecd iso, and the
current livecd's (spins) would all be based off the minimal package set
and include additional packages and post scripts to make the "Image" a
bootable livecd.
I don't think the tooling is a real issue, rather the "compose" step,
which AIUI is a manual process that involves rel-eng, is this correct?
-D