Re: Please fix your bugs in release instead of rawhide!

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> So, as the person who has apparently pissed you off this morning, it's
> not as trivial as you're making it out to be.  I'm sorry that you want
> to be doing the development of the live images for the next release on
> Fedora 10, but the fact of the matter is that as the base system of
> Fedora moves onward, it's not just a foregone conclusion that everything
> can be done on the previous release.  Yes, I could push back the single
> patch for the syslinux path change... but that *isn't* sufficient to
> make a working rawhide live image while on Fedora 10.  You also need
> things like a) a newer kernel so that your system doesn't livelock while
> writing to ext4 b) a newer squashfs-tools so that you can build an image
> that works with the rawhide kernel[1] c) one or two other things are a
> little different and could have side effects -- sure, those could be
> tested extensively and dealt with/fixed/whatnot.  But that's then effort
> not spent on implementing things for the future.  And given the intended
> audience of livecd-tools, that's really not the best use of effort.

FWIW, while I don't know how a proper fix would look like (maybe mock could
be somehow part of the equation), I think this "building live images only
works on the same version of Fedora the live image is of" issue really
needs some sort of solution.

        Kevin Kofler