At 10:52 AM -0400 6/5/07, Jesse Keating wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2008544.aiEdq5Lhs6"; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:44:26 Tony Nelson wrote: >> Pungi doesn't just use the comps.xml list of packages and the given repo to >> make the install images? It gets some of its content from the running OS? >> Perhaps what Pungi gets from the running OS could be added to the >> documentation when that gets written. > >Pungi reads a manifest file that is of kickstart syntax to determine what >to "download". It then has to run some anaconda tools on what it downloads >to make them installable. Those anaconda tools must match the version of >anaconda that is in the distribution. So you need Fedora 7 anaconda tools to >compose Fedora 7, and those tools need other parts of Fedora 7, and so on. I >do believe this is documented at >https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi but maybe not clear enough, >I'm not a docs writer. > >> >> >comps is not used to determine what packages >> >> >get onto the media. The manifest file does. In the case of Fedora 7 >> >> > there is an /etc/pungi/f7-fedora.manifest file shipped, as well as >> >> >an /etc/pungi/f7-fedora.i386/x86_64/ppc file that can be slightly >> >> > modified to make CD isos. Just uncomment and lower the cdsize >> >> > variable and increase the discs variable. >> >> >> >> Where is this .manifest file shipped? There are no .manifest files on >> >> the DVD. >> > >> >It's shipped in the Fedora 7 pungi package. >> >> And apparantly can't be used by a Pungi that runs on FC6. Too bad. >> Perhaps I'll be able to make do with the comps.xml file on the DVD. (If it >> won't work, it would help to say how it won't work, because it seems to >> work.) > >The resulting iso set will fail. You'll have an install environment of Fedora >7 packages built with Fedora 6 tools that are incompatible. OK. I'll give up now. No F7 CDs from me. Perhaps someone else will do it with jigdo. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
