Re: More script updates

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:51:26 -0500
Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are really two big parts here -- one is under the covers and the
> other is more end-user visible
> 1) The under the covers bit is switching away from the find bits for 
> finding kernels and anaconda-runtime, etc and instead using repoquery
> + yumdownloader.  This then lets us build install images against any
> repo which is kind of cool
> 2) The user visible part is that boot.iso goes away.  We've talked
> about this some and the idea is to replace the small boot.iso with a
> new iso image that contains the kernel, the initrd and stage2.img.
> This will also let us get rid of the mk-rescuecd gunk.  The only real
> question is should we be doing this from buildinstall or should it be
> punted to pungi. I suspect that we'll want to just thread --no-isos
> or some-such and then let pungi do it for the normal case, but then
> we still have the (minimal) mkisofs magic so that we can make test
> images.

I like this a lot.  I think it can make some of the rawhide creation
process easier too.  I'll have to work some changes into pungi to take
care of putting the netinst.iso into the isos/ dir and naming it
appropriately, but that's not much work at all.  I say commit it and
we'll deal with the fallout (:

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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