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

On 10/20/05, Chris Gianelloni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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 <http://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.
>
>
Great... thats all I was curious about. I'm perfectly happy to let you make
the CDs. Thanks for the answer Chris.

-Mike

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