[CentOS-devel] Question about generating a spin of CentOS 7

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

>>  I can see
>> situations where a self-contained one-step install would be better.
>> Maybe the minimal install build could look for a 2nd partition on the
>> iso or a mounted usb for a continuation script.
>>
>
> Yes, that is called a kickstart and anaconda is designed specifically to
> allow you to pass one in .. either locally or on the web, etc.  You
> original install and be additive.

I meant adding a standard place to look for the optional kickstart or
post-install script to the stock minimal install.  A person who would
have trouble logging in and running a script after a base install
would not find typing the kickstart command line much easier.

> You can do whatever you want on YOUR OWN systems and call it whatever
> you want.  Anything you are smart enough to do.

I thought that was the original context here.  Someone needing a
remote install of a customized system - by a person who shouldn't be
making any of the choices the installer offers.

> If you tried to redistribute that as CentOS (your clonezilla images, for
> exampel), and say that it is official CentOS, well it is not.  Official
> CentOS is in the form that we release it, not some other form.
> Especially not some other form where things are modified.
>
> You can't modify Ubuntu or Debian or OpenSUSE either, and then
> distribute it and call it either of those things either.  This is why
> Linux Mint is not Ubuntu and Ubuntu is not Debian ... but Linux mint is
> 'based on Ubuntu' and Ubyntu is 'based on Debain'.  This is not rocket
> science.

Legalese is much worse than rocket science.  Where does a VM image fit
in this scheme?  Can people build a VM image with an application
installed for distribution and still identify the base system name?
And if so, how/why is that different from any other copy?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com