[CentOS-devel] pungi feedback (Re: CentOS 5 build scripts)

Fri May 18 21:34:59 UTC 2007
Charlie Brady <charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au>

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> jean-seb wrote:
>> And anaconda stuff ton compute dependencies?? pkgorder? buildinstall
>> ?splittree.py ?
>
> yes, all those are gone in centos-5 you dont need to run pkgorder and
> splittree is deprecated, no one is using the one included in anaconda
> anymore.
>
> you havent still said what it is that you are trying to do ? perhaps you
> are looking for the pungi package that lets you compose and do your own
> spins ?

If pungi documentation is to be believed, then buildinstall, pkgorder and 
splittree are still in use.

It looks to me that the gather module duplicates what is easily done using 
yumdownloader.

I'm rather disappointed to see that pungi still requires root access to 
run. I don't understand why that is the case, now that all the .img files 
included in the image can be built non-root using mksquashfs and 
cpio/gzip.