[CentOS-devel] CentOS 5 Live CD

[Daniel de Kok]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:51 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> I'd much rather stick with than create orphans for the likes of lvm / anaconda / 
> kudzu etc. They are all fairly critical portions of the distro, and while being 
> on a livecd is fine, when they get transfered over onto an installed machine, 
> its something a user would expect to be 'CentOS'.

I haven't looked yet at how Anaconda does live CD installs, but can't we
modify it to install our versions of these packages during the
installation?

> And I am not sure if we can even do this sort of a thing as a CentOSPlus livecd, 
> unless someone wants to take on the job of maintaining these packages in the 
> plus repo, and doing enough to make sure it continues to work with the base distro.

Quite painful to do so for seven years :(.

-- Daniel