[Server-devel] Pungi and a text-only F9 installer for XS

[Martin Langhoff]

On the F9 track, I have been playing around a bit with Pungi as a
robust - and better fitting - install composer. It has several
advantages over livecd-tools.

A minor problem is that it's impossible at the moment to build a F9
install CD without bringing in X.org server, Cairo and a good chunk of
gnome. See
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-buildsys-list&m=121740313820597&w=2

A "textonly" splitoff of anaconda and anaconda runtime that drop the X
dependencies would shed ~200 MB of dependencies, and make F9 a better
fit for embedded deployments, making the XS image smaller and nicer
along the way... hint, hint... :-)

Another interesting track is making the "CD installer" work from a usb
stick, modding livecd-iso-to-disk, see
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-buildsys-list&m=121740508223325&w=2

The XS image doesn't have strict dietary requirements as the XO image,
but my aim is to fit in one CD and/or as small a USB disk as possible.
Content packages will definitely take up the slack :-)

cheers,



martin
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