Hey everyone, I think we should move to building images with split initramfs/runtime again[1]. I've been working on that in the "treebuilder" branch of lorax. It's building working rawhide images for x86 and ppc already. The "treebuilder" branch of lorax is a pretty big departure from current lorax master. It's possible that it should be a different major version, or even a forked project[2].. Anyway the highlight of this branch is the templating language, which has been greatly expanded; the entire image creation process has basically been rewritten in lorax templates. In my opinion the image creation process is *much* easier to understand (and modify) this way. It also adds an image creation library and a new "mkefiboot" command to make the EFI boot images. The current diffstat from master is: 26 files changed, 1929 insertions(+), 3876 deletions(-) so it's ~2000 lines shorter, but still does everything it did before. I'd really like to see if we can get this switched over for F16 Beta; what do you all think? -w [1] Some reasons for using split images: * It's what the users are used to * It saves RAM when booting from media * We can't make netbootable PPC images otherwise * We can combine split images, but we can't split combined images [2] Especially since I think it's really silly how much is duplicated between lorax and pungi; it might make sense to merge pungi into the treebuilder code and just call it an entirely new thing.. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
