[Fedora-livecd-list] Virt-p2v live CD, comments and packaging

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 19:05 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm posting here to see if anyone has any comments about the way I did 
> this live CD.  The kickstart script uses a rather complex %post section, 
> which adds a few files to the filesystem, instead of building RPMs or 
> modifying existing RPMs.

>From a maintainability point of view, you're going to be happier in the
long run if you actually package up things into RPMs as opposed to just
concatenating piles of scripts.  I've already gotten pretty frustrated
with just the initscript we're using in the desktop case on a few
occasions.

> I've also investigated how to attach stuff to the end of the ISO image, 
> and the way I've come up with allows me to update an ISO with a new 
> script quite easily, and much more quickly than waiting for 
> livecd-creator to rerun.  This great (a) for rapid development and (b) 
> to send new updates to users without forcing them to download another 
> 170 MB ISO.

Ewwww :)

Jeremy