On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:08:52PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > Taken into account the configuration stuff in Live-CDs is usually done > manually and is also very specific to the kind of live-CD you want to > create (as well as who will use it, what applications you want to include, > etc..). I don't believe that should be included in a /usr/sbin/knoppix. > I might be wrong however. Maybe I should've called it /usr/sbin/klaus_knopper ;) Anyway, the stuff that hypothetical binary does is: * mark a bunch of packages for install, and run apt-get on them * configure them in some pre-deterined way The first is trivial to automate once you've selected the packages, although it can suck a bit to maintain as some of the packages get dropped from unstable. The second is harder to automate, but it's something we need to do anyway: it's the same thing we want to be able to dump images out to a hundred computers in a university lab, or a thousand computers on secretaries desks at your favourite multinational or government agency, or ten-thousand computers in a roll-out for a new search engine. Getting that working for a single case (live CDs), is a good way to get it working well for the general case, and even if not, tends to make the single case a bunch easier. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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