[Fedora-livecd-list] Livecd-creator and source rpms

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 02:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> If I am building and distributing a ISO containing Fedora packages, I 
>>> would also want to distribute the equivalent source ISO. Unlike Pungi 
>>> which does this by default, livecd-creator doesn't seem to have a 
>>> easy way to do this. It especially becomes tricky if I am including 
>>> not just the GA packages but also including updates. Can 
>>> livecd-creator be modified to build source ISO images as well?
>>
>> I'm sure it could.  Somebody just has to do the work to add that
>> functionality.  I'm sure some of the pungi code could be stolen or made
>> a generic utility and used directly to determine which srpms to grab.
> 
> Could the common code be split out or IIRC, there was some mumbling 
> about merging pungi and livecd-creator. What are the current thoughts on 
> that?

We had gotten the same requirement for the appliance building. We can 
get David Huff to help out. I will make sure he sees this thread :)

-- bk