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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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?
> 

As said before, the already existent yum object points at another 
directory then builddir/install_root and the goal of specifying another 
install root then builddir/install_root is to be able to preserve the 
yum object as-is.

Bigger picture however is, I'm really trying to allow us to get into 
livecd-creator what we need for Revisor to be able to exec().

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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