Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[Tom Stellard]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:01:39AM +0100, Steve Dommett wrote:
> On Friday 07 August 2009, Tom Stellard wrote:
> > I noticed that when I build a liveCD, the portage snapshot I used to
> > build the stages is included in the iso file.  Is there a config value
> > I can set so that the snapshot is not included in the iso?
> >
> > -Tom
>
>
> Perhaps livecd/rm?
>
> An example from the Gentoo releng 2008.0 spec files:
> livecd/rm:
>         /etc/*-
>         /etc/*.old
>         /root/.viminfo
>         /var/log/*.log
>         /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/*.bz2
>
> Cheers,
>   Steve.
>
I think the snapshot is being added after the stage has been built.
The snapshot I am trying to remove is not installed in the root directory.
If you mount the iso file there will 3 directories: docs, isolinux,
snapshot.  The snapshot directory contains the portage snapshot, which
is the one I am trying to remove.

-Tom