Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 2/6] Setting the install_root

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> This enables other applications using livecd-creator as a backend
> application, while already having initialized a yum object configured
> with a certain installroot (which once the yum object is initialized,
> cannot be changed). Matching the build environment to what
> livecd-creator expects results in trouble with other builds running
> (eg., symlinking the actual yum installroot to "%s/install_root" %
> self.build_dir).

In practice, though, this is a bit of a moot point, since the API for
using livecd-creator is the command-line and passing it a kickstart
config.  At which point, the fact that you have another yum object
doesn't really make much difference...

Jeremy