[Fedora-livecd-list] [Patch] specify custom directories

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:50 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:48 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> >> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 17:31 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> >>>> Attached is a patch to customize the build_dir, yum cachedir and yum
> >>>> installroot.
> >>> build dir and cachedir make sense to me[1], but what's the value in
> >>> setting install_root explicitly?  And as it stands, you're not even
> >>> using the value since there are lots of other places where we expect
> >>> that the install root is builddir/install_root.
> >> That is why the yum_installroot passed is actually being symlinked from 
> >> builddir/install_root. line ~34 in the patch. This allows a yum object 
> >> already initialized to keep the installroot yet "install into 
> >> builddir/install_root".
> > 
> > But why do you actually need that?  The install_root is where the file
> > system image gets mounted and so if you already have things in a
> > directory, that's not going to help.  
> > 
> 
> I do not already have things in a directory (well actually, I do, but I 
> don't care about them being trashed), I have an object pointing to a 
> directory and I cannot change that without destroying and recreating the 
> object.

But what are you trying to do?  You just keep talking about objects and
implementation details, not about the actual task you're trying to do.
What magic is going on that it's so important that this be kept in sync?

> The patch is doing what I need, and afaics is not disruptive to 
> livecd-creator's way of doing things, right?

It could have some ... interesting effects across error handling and
adds an entirely new class of things there to check for and ensure keep
working. 

Jeremy