Forgot to cc acarter on the original email On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 06:13:44 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote: > 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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