On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 21:39 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Dan Trainor wrote: > > Matt Wilson wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:33:18PM -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote: > >> > >>> Those instructions are outdated. Anaconda now uses yum. genhdlist is > >>> gone, is no more! It has ceased to be! It has expired and gone to meet > >>> it's maker! > >> > >> > >> No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! > >> > > > > Hi - > > > > Where can further documentation be found on how yum is used in this > > manner? Is this functionality exclusive to FC5t3? Can I now buy the > > developers a case of beer for their efforts? > > > Are the FC5 tests covered by the GPL? If so, shouldn't there be a build > script or something very similar either in the distributed ISO or, > maybe, with the source packages? > > See COPYING section 3., para 2 (assuming a), b) and c) are part of para 1) > > Note the GPL doesn't seem to me atm to cover collations well, and some > interpretation's needed. The preferred form for making modifications is > actually the ISO (or its contents) plus "plus the scripts used to > control compilation and installation of the executable." (or create a > modified ISO). > > Presumably someone actually has a shell script someplace, so it > shouldn't be hard to make it copy itself into the ISO at some > appropriate location. you can build all of fedora in mock, I believe. Just have it start building on rawhide and then have it feed all of its packages into a local repo that mock can use. -sv
