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I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees [and images].
Tree building tools such as pungi and revisor rely on 'buildinstall' in
anaconda/scripts/ to produce the boot images and other such control files
in the final tree. The existing buildinstall scripts written in a mix of
bash and Python are unmaintainable. Lorax is an attempt to replace them
with something more flexible.
EXISTING WORKFLOW:
pungi and other tools call scripts/buildinstall, which in turn call other
scripts to do the image building and data generation. Here's how it
currently looks:
-> buildinstall
* process command line options
* write temporary yum.conf to point to correct repo
* find anaconda release RPM
* unpack RPM, pull in those versions of upd-instroot, mk-images,
maketreeinfo.py, makestamp.py, and buildinstall
-> call upd-instroot
-> call maketreeinfo.py
-> call mk-images (which figures out which mk-images.ARCH to call)
-> call makestamp.py
* clean up
PROBLEMS:
The existing workflow presents some problems with maintaining the scripts.
First, almost all knowledge of what goes in to the stage 1 and stage 2
images lives in upd-instroot. The mk-images* scripts copy things from the
root created by upd-instroot in order to build the stage 1 image, though
it's not completely clear from reading the scripts.
NEW IDEAS:
Create a new central driver with all information living in Python modules.
Configuration files will provide the knowledge previously contained in the
upd-instroot and mk-images* scripts.
--
David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>

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Lorax is a set of tools used to create bootable images.
* lorax - creates the Anaconda boot.iso used to install Fedora
* livemedia-creator - uses Anaconda to create bootable images
* lorax-composer - API server implementing the Weldr BDCS protocol using livemedia-creator
See the [Weldr blog](https://weldr.io) for more info about BDCS and the [Lorax documentation](https://weldr.io/lorax) for more information about Lorax and associated tools.