Re: loader/stage2 interaction

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Bastian wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, James Laska wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:32 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> >> - We shouldn't leave the repo mounted at the end of loader.
> >>
> >>   Problem:  RHupdates/ will no longer work.
> >
> > How frequently do folks use RHupdates these days?  If recent memory
> > serves, I've been using nothing but updates.img's for all http, ftp, and
> > nfs installs.
> 
> I use it on occasion when debugging something in anaconda.  It's a bit 
> faster than spinning an updates.img.

I said that for a while, but now that we can have updates.img being a
cgz, I'm less convinced.
  find $foo |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -9 > updates.cgz
is pretty straightforward and no more difficult really.  The problem
with the filesystem images was always having to be root

Jeremy