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RE: loader/stage2 interaction
- From: "Kay Williams" <kwilliams renditionsoftware com>
- To: "'Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer'" <anaconda-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: RE: loader/stage2 interaction
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:12:42 -0700
> > > product.img: What prohibits us from doing the same as with the
> > > updates.img? The two are arguably really about the same thing -
making
> > > modifications to the stage2 image. The product.img just modifies the
> > > available installclasses. That's still modifying anaconda's source
> > > files if you think about it.
> >
> > Yes, but logically, a product.img is more related to your packages than
> > to your installer. Maybe this is just the sign that we need to blow up
> > install classes like I've been threatening to do for years.
>
> Well I can certainly just remove the code to download them and then
> you'll have no choices besides fixing product.img or hoping no one ever
> asks for it back.
product.img's are quite useful for creating custom spins w/o needing to run
a full buildinstall. In our case, we automatically generate them to provide
custom .buildstamp, installclass, and pixmap files.
-Kay
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