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Re: updates.img since anaconda-11.4.0.36-1



On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:44:52 -0500
Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 09:33 +0100, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
> > isys.c and the likes go into the stage2.img (squashfs)  To get a new
> > isys.c into the installation you would have to rebuild anaconda, put
> > isys.so into new stage2.img, put stage2.img image in tree, install.
> > FYI, updates.img is for .py file, you can also put stuff there that
> > you want to have at install time (a text file or whatever).
> 
> This is partially true.  You can also build isys.c into the _isys.so
> shared module that's used by python and also stick it into an
> updates.img.  PYTHONPATH impacts loading of "native" modules as well as
> byte-compiled ones.  
> 
> Other things that you can stick into updates.img are updated shared
> libraries as we set LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately also.

And rhpl updates, pykickstart...and tools that we might want for debugging.

You might find this page useful:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI

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