Karanbir Singh wrote: > Daniel de Kok wrote: >> 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? > > if its installing rpms - then yes that would ( read: should ) not be a > major issue. I am quite sure it is not installing rpms. The installation process is copying the Live CD content to the selected hard drive. Maybe we could add a post-installation script following these steps: 1. chroot to the new installation 2. force rpm installation of CentOS packages over Live CD packages 3. exit >>> 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 :(. > > Maintaining the packages should not really be an issue, the problem is > going to be making sure that everything else in the distro also plays > well with what we have in there and making sure we are not creating > more issues for users. > > - KB >