On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:38:30PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Jeremy Katz wrote: >> So, as the person who has apparently pissed you off this morning, it's >> not as trivial as you're making it out to be. I'm sorry that you want >> to be doing the development of the live images for the next release on >> Fedora 10, but the fact of the matter is that as the base system of >> Fedora moves onward, it's not just a foregone conclusion that everything >> can be done on the previous release. Yes, I could push back the single >> patch for the syslinux path change... but that *isn't* sufficient to >> make a working rawhide live image while on Fedora 10. You also need >> things like a) a newer kernel so that your system doesn't livelock while >> writing to ext4 b) a newer squashfs-tools so that you can build an image >> that works with the rawhide kernel[1] c) one or two other things are a >> little different and could have side effects -- sure, those could be >> tested extensively and dealt with/fixed/whatnot. But that's then effort >> not spent on implementing things for the future. And given the intended >> audience of livecd-tools, that's really not the best use of effort. > >FWIW, while I don't know how a proper fix would look like (maybe mock could >be somehow part of the equation), I think this "building live images only >works on the same version of Fedora the live image is of" issue really >needs some sort of solution. Which is exactly how the images are built. In a mock chroot of the version you are building for. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
