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About Pungi
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*Pungi* is a distribution compose tool.
Composes are release snapshots that contain release deliverables such as:
- installation trees
- RPMs
- repodata
- comps
- (bootable) ISOs
- kickstart trees
- anaconda images
- images for PXE boot
Tool overview
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*Pungi* consists of multiple separate executables backed by a common library.
The main entry-point is the ``pungi-koji`` script. It loads the compose
configuration and kicks off the process. Composing itself is done in phases.
Each phase is responsible for generating some artifacts on disk and updating
the ``compose`` object that is threaded through all the phases.
*Pungi* itself does not actually do that much. Most of the actual work is
delegated to separate executables. *Pungi* just makes sure that all the
commands are invoked in the appropriate order and with correct arguments. It
also moves the artifacts to correct locations.
Links
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- Upstream GIT: https://pagure.io/pungi/
- Issue tracker: https://pagure.io/pungi/issues
- Questions can be asked on *#fedora-releng* IRC channel on FreeNode
Origin of name
==============
The name *Pungi* comes from the instrument used to charm snakes. *Anaconda*
being the software Pungi was manipulating, and anaconda being a snake, led to
the referential naming.
The first name, which was suggested by Seth Vidal, was *FIST*, *Fedora
Installation <Something> Tool*. That name was quickly discarded and replaced
with Pungi.
There was also a bit of an inside joke that when said aloud, it could sound
like punji, which is `a sharpened stick at the bottom of a
trap <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_stick>`_. Kind of like software…