Re: genhdlist missed in FC5t3 ?

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Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:24:41AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:

I don't know what mock is, but I suspect from your reply that it doesn't exactly solve the problem: the question I see frequently is, "How do I (add packages to|remove packages from) Fedora and build a new set of ISOs?" The preferred source for this process is actually the set of (binary) packages, not the source rpms.


It's some nebulous language.

I think the problem, though, is not ill-will on Red Hat's part, but lack of

I agree there

time and resources to document what all is needed. And while I haven't

or lack of thinking through the implications of the GPL.

looked at the FC5 stuff yet, for all previous releases, everything you need
*is* there, just not documented very well.

The commands are there, but I don't imagine anyone@redhat actually types them all in each time they build. I wouldn't: if it's ten commands, I'd have them all in a shell script. I have lots of very short scripts.


Copying that script to the first ISO image would fix the documentation problem.

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