On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:51:26 -0500 Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote: > There are really two big parts here -- one is under the covers and the > other is more end-user visible > 1) The under the covers bit is switching away from the find bits for > finding kernels and anaconda-runtime, etc and instead using repoquery > + yumdownloader. This then lets us build install images against any > repo which is kind of cool > 2) The user visible part is that boot.iso goes away. We've talked > about this some and the idea is to replace the small boot.iso with a > new iso image that contains the kernel, the initrd and stage2.img. > This will also let us get rid of the mk-rescuecd gunk. The only real > question is should we be doing this from buildinstall or should it be > punted to pungi. I suspect that we'll want to just thread --no-isos > or some-such and then let pungi do it for the normal case, but then > we still have the (minimal) mkisofs magic so that we can make test > images. I like this a lot. I think it can make some of the rawhide creation process easier too. I'll have to work some changes into pungi to take care of putting the netinst.iso into the isos/ dir and naming it appropriately, but that's not much work at all. I say commit it and we'll deal with the fallout (: -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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