On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 03:40 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> Hi.
> I became new maintainer for s-c-netboot and I 
> have found this interesting mailing list. It
> seems we are doing same thing but in different
> way. S-c-netboot is quite old now and needs 
> some serious work and the question is develop
> it alone or use some parts of your work. And 
> seems same for Stateless Fedora project. The 
> best way I think is to use what is already done,
> work together, s-c-netboot can act as (G)UI for 
> Stateless Fedora/RHEL project.
> With beginning of system configuration management
> project (PolicyKit etc.) we can have independent 
> backend for users to access stateless configuration
> etc.
> I've already read old thread "s-c-netboot vs..."
> but it's quite old now...
> So what do you think? ;-)   

Your first Bugzilla entry:  ;)
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465864  

I had been changing so much just trying to get the /tmp issue resolved
that I "stepped back" and had to mark down all of the changes I made and
tried them in combination.  I had previously tried comparing the
stateless setup in RHEL to the livecd-tools, and I think that's why I
kept missing the sequence.

So in my testing, I finally realized the obviousness of the truth ...

- Change readonly-root
- Disable init script network
- Remove various files/dirs

I had gone at it in the opposite order, and changed a lot of things that
broke others.  It started when I noted that /tmp was mounted read-only,
but everything else (including /var/tmp) was tmpfs and read/write.

Even though /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root is documented, clearing out
various directories and disabling S10network is not as obvious, until
you systematically attempt trial'n error.  I didn't see the network init
script disablement documented anywhere, but it does seem obvious now,
given how stateless works.

I marked it "moderate" in severity, but "low" in priority, given the
state of this tool's possible "deprecation."  If I missed it, I know
someone else could have missed it.  I mean, I was dissecting the initrd
and rc.sysinit, thinking it was there.  Either that, or I'm just an
idiot (which you would have no problem finding many who would agree ;).



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