Re: Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:12 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> On 10/20/05, Chris Gianelloni <[email protected]> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 02:28 +0800, John Walsh wrote:
>         > Ok, but will the CD still ahve everything it had before, or
>         will you be removing stuff to make
>         > room for X and all of that? If so, as I suspect, what will
>         be taken out? Is there a place where 
>         > people can look at what will be removed and maybe vote on
>         what needs to stay?
>         
>         Nothing is taken out.  The Universal CD is just the Minimal
>         CD, as far
>         as functionality is concerned.  This will be a more functional
>         CD.  As 
>         for voting, this isn't Survivor.  You don't get to vote anyone
>         off the
>         island.
> 
> Aww... come on... I wanna vote somebody off the island. 
> 
> Anyhow I think the minimal and the installer cd are the way to go.
> Perhaps if you just also release the source files you use to build the
> iso (I don't know what this would be, perhaps the catalyst file?) then
> people who desperately want to put together a KDE livecd or something
> like that could do it themselves.

Currently, much of the ISO generation is done manually.  As for what is
done upto livecd-stage1, I have actually said many times how to
accomplish this.  Take every package from the published "packagecd.spec"
for x86, add them to the end of "livecd-stage1.spec" and you're done.

To use my spec files, you would need my hand-hacked copy of catalyst,
which is currently useless on anything but my machine, since it has tons
of hard-coded information (distcc hosts, paths, etc) that I have no
plans on sanitizing just to release, considering it is a modification
from catalyst 1.1.10.10, and the catalyst 1.x line has reached EOL as we
are moving all development to catalyst 2.0, which will be capable of
building a LiveCD similar to mine.  At that time, I'll release specs
designed for catalyst 2.0 for public consumption.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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