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Could anyone get me some docs on how catalyst functions wrt. livecd |
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creation? I'm interested in the following aspects: |
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- How do catalyst and genkernel interact? |
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- What exactly do the different livecd stages do? |
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- Is it possible to specify on a per-arch basis what gets zapmosted |
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(thinking in terms of both the current ppc and old x86 scripts)? For |
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instance, what happens to non-x86 keymaps on a ppc livecd. |
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- How do I create the actual livecd? Is there some kind of scripting |
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that puts grp, stages, sources, initrd, kernel, bootloader, ... all on |
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the disc the livecd tool should produce? |
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I heard x86 was going to consider a one disc release containing both |
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some GRP and a working X for fosdem. Is this the new official format? |
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Am I allowed to use catalyst only for grp and stages for a fosdem |
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release and use my current livecd script to create the actual discs? |
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Is it possible to get an update on catalyst and genkernel progress in |
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general? Is there a possibility ppc64 could integrate ppc32 livecd |
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support into catalyst? If I'm not mistaken brad_mssw is closely related |
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to both ppc64, catalyst, genkernel and even amd64 for which already |
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livecds have been created using catalyst. I guess this would speed up |
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development enourmeously. This brings me to another question: |
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Is it possible for releng to be more verbose regarding what the |
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developers they gave access to their infrastructure for powerpc work |
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are actually working on? Wouldn't it be a good idea to create some |
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guidelines or policies about interaction between projects? I think some |
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current ppc subprojects (such as the QA projects) have guidelines about |
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things like masking packages stable, I think those need to be |
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communicated in an effective way to the developers now doing powerpc |
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work. While I was looking at catalyst I detected some packages which |
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were marked stable on ppc, but will never work on ppc (bootsplash was |
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one of them: ofb does not allow bootsplash to be used afaik.). |
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Pieter |
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