On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 15:19 -0500, Darrin Thompson wrote: > The build system is pretty scary right now. (Disclaimer: My knowledge is > circa FC2) It hasn't changed much really since Red Hat Linux 7.0 or so. > I had to add cracklib checking to the root password screen for a > customer awhile back. I had to patch buildimage and friends to unpack my > python-crack package and also patch it to not delete python-crack's > relevant files. It would be really nice if I could feed buildimage a > list of packages and files to allow in various images. Or even better, > there could be a hook where I could post process the contents of the > image before it is finalized, or something else. The big problem is that it's just a huge chunk of work, especially to do without regressions. Adding new deps is a rare enough occurrence that it just hasn't been high on the list of priorities, especially as the number of people that use it is extremely low. Jeremy
