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Policies for initrd.img and install.img image generation.
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lorax takes a different approach than the previous buildinstall set of scripts
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for generating the boot and install images and tree data files. First, the
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main ideas:
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* Configuration files control the list of packages to make images with.
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* Rather than explicitly listing the files to keep in the images (i.e.,
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we used to have KEEPFILE variables in upd-instroot), we now take what
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the packages lay down and do a minimal tree scrubbing (remove docs,
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for example). This is customizable through configuration files
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because we will always have exceptions. But the policy in lorax is
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opposite of the buildinstall policy: take everything that RPMS lay
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down, remove what we don't want--rather than removing everything
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that is not explicitly listed in KEEPFILE variables.
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* The main root tree generated from the package set is broken in to
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/usr for the install.img and everything else for the initrd.img.
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This is configurable through configuration files since we will
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always have exceptions.
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* Static data such as files we need to place in /etc in the images or
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other control files are stored in /usr/share/lorax and copied in to
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the image staging tree.
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The approach of taking what the packages give us is a decision to make
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maintenance of the image building tools easier. Whatever the packages lay
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down should be sufficient for the installation images and we shouldn't
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have to have our own list of files to keep and library gathering routines.
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Let the packaging tools figure that out.
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The whole tool is written in Python with a driver program ("lorax"), but the
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actual logic for the program is in the pylorax module. The idea behind this
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is that tools such as pungi can potentially import pylorax directly and not
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have to run the command line tool to do image generation work. That is,
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pungi can use lorax programatically.
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This tool is still in the early stages of development (Sep 2008) and patches
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and comments are welcome.
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