On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 13:21:15 -0700, > Jasper Hartline <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I suppose. But I've already been working on trying to get syslinux >> moved to the base DVD >> where someone doesn't require having to rsync the 20GB Everything tree >> to create LiveCDs. > > You can create a local repo with just syslinux in it to work around this.
This is not acceptable for users. In a specific case like just me scenario, I surely can copy everything from the DVD to disk, and then put syslinux there and it's deps and run createrepo, this is too much for the general population though. The purpose behind this as I've stated before is not just to benefit myself. It is to benefit the users of LiveCD and users of livecd-tools to have a very simple way without much effort to start creating a LiveCD media. Also the DVD is read-only, I can't just mount the DVD and run create repo on it. I am not personally looking for a workaround to the issue, it is for the benefit of users who don't know that createrepo even exists but do know what a kickstart file is and a repository source is in the form of a URL. >> I am not sure how a savings of 3MB really comes into play. > > For some of the LiveCD images that much space is significant. For most of the > DVD images (other than perhaps games), it wouldn't be a big deal. I am pretty sure Mads is talking about the user created livecd, not the official spins. Have you actually talked to Kevin and asked him about the current size of the LiveCD and if doing what Mads is suggesting would be a benefit? -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
