Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:29:08PM -0500, p...@laptop.org wrote: > >> daniel wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: >>> ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. with partitioning support, it should be possible

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:29:08PM -0500, p...@laptop.org wrote: >daniel wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: > > > ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > > > > > > with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > > > overlaid by a unionf

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread pgf
daniel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: > > ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > > > > with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > > overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-specific changes > > don't modify the re

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: > ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > > with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-specific changes > don't modify the released partition. this would ma

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread pgf
morgan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith > > wrote: ... > >> The biggest challenge I see is to find those things which you do not want > >> to > >> "clone" from the source XO. The only things that come to mind are

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:46:09AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: >On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: >>>On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Both have challenges. My preference is clone because I think its easier for > the end user (create an XO the way you like it then click "clone"). However, > we need to figure out the list of things that should not be cloned as you > mention. It

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Your suggestion that we allow addition of RPMs and get th

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: >On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >>> Your suggestion that we allow >>> addition of RPMs and get those built into a signed image via "pilgrim or >>> puritan" is

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >> Your suggestion that we allow >> addition of RPMs and get those built into a signed image via "pilgrim or >> puritan" is certainly valuable and part of the requirement. >> >> However, it doe

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Dan, Those sound like two good steps. I think we should make a design decision here to either: 1 - "clone" minus a list of configurations or 2 - Extend customization to include everything relevant for a deployment. Both have challenges. My preference is clone because I think its easier for t

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Your suggestion that we allow > addition of RPMs and get those built into a signed image via "pilgrim or > puritan" is certainly valuable and part of the requirement. > > However, it doesn't cover a few added things (language settings was > spec

Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Dan, Thanks for the comments on the image customization feature: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_customization I moved them from the requirements to the specification section because I think you are proposing a possible solution. Your suggestion that we allow addition of RPMs