Hi, Today I was running through runs of livemedia-creator in mock to figure out what exactly we need to get koji to run in order to produce the liveiso's I got things running and was able to produce a live iso. aside from things like the iso being ~1G bigger than what we get from livecd-creator I had one big surprise. The surprise was the output that we got. In Release engineering we want the tooling to make the artifact as we are going to ship it. This means that someone running the tool at home can make the same thing as what we make. I was expecting for output something along the lines of Fedora-Live- Workstation-x86_64-rawhide-20151215.iso which is what we get from livecd- creator. Instead of just an iso what I got was a tree EFI EFI/BOOT EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI EFI/BOOT/MokManager.efi EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg EFI/BOOT/fonts EFI/BOOT/fonts/unicode.pf2 images images/pxeboot images/pxeboot/vmlinuz images/pxeboot/initrd.img images/install.img images/efiboot.img images/macboot.img images/product.img images/boot.iso isolinux isolinux/vmlinuz isolinux/initrd.img isolinux/isolinux.bin isolinux/vesamenu.c32 isolinux/ldlinux.c32 isolinux/libcom32.c32 isolinux/libutil.c32 isolinux/isolinux.cfg isolinux/grub.conf isolinux/boot.msg isolinux/splash.png isolinux/memtest LiveOS LiveOS/squashfs.img where the only thing that we will ship is images/boot.iso but we will have to do manipulation of the tree to keep what we want and name it correctly and discard all the extra bits. this means that every use that makes livecds will need to write tooling to extract the boot.iso, rename it and discard the extra bits. given http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Live/x86_64/ as an example of how we ship live media it is not a great thing to have to do. I strongly feel that a small piece of additional code in livemedia-creator to correctly name the iso given that there is a --image-name flag is reasonable and will save every person that makes livemedia from having to rewrite basically the same function, or us just writing a wrapper around livemedia- creator to do so. I am happy to write the code but want to make sure that it will be welcome before I go off and do so. This is a feature we are trying to get into the compose tools and process for Fedora 24 so that we can get rid of livecd- creator and appliance-creator once and for all Regards Dennis
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