On 02/17/2010 10:36 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 02/03/2010 03:32 AM, James Heather wrote:
>>>
>>> Intuitively the idea seems sensible: unpack the squashfs image
>>> somewhere, chroot, yum install blither (using whatever repos are
>> defined
>>> inside the image), repack.
>>
>> A while Ago I posted a script to the list that does just this:
>>
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/attachments/20090922/85
>> 647312/attachment.py
>>
>>
>> I am still looking for feed back on this script. I would like to see
>> something like this included in livecd-tools, especially now that there
>> seems to be some interest in this.
>
> Ah, that's great. I wasn't subscribed at that point so I missed it. I'll have 
> a look.
>
> It occurs to me that there's a more general way of doing this that might also 
> be useful, which is to rebuild the squashfs image by combining it with the 
> persistent overlay. In other words, inject the overlay contents into the 
> squashfs and repack.

James, thanks for the feedback.  I am open to any suggestions on a 
better way to do this.  Initially we were using a "simple" bash script, 
and this was an attempt to incorporate the existing livecd-tools work 
for a better way of editing a livecd.iso.

One issues we were seeing with the bash script was the image size would 
increase dramatically, just but unpacking editing a file and repacking. 
  We were hoping that by reusing the livecd code we could also reuse the 
image-minimizing stuff and not see this large size increase.


-David
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