[MythDora] mythdora for RHEL5

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 07, 2007, at 20:00, gchris wrote:

> Dennis Hand wrote:
>> On 10/7/07, gchris <gchris at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> In the past, Jarod has expressed severe concerns about Pungi's
>>> capabilities for anything other than fedora.  I read Dennis'  
>>> comment as
>>> Jarod saying that Pungi was making progress beyond it's original  
>>> design
>>> capabilities rather than an intent to use it for a specific purpose.
>>> Chris
>>>
>> Ummm, I'm not sure if I've heard of any severe concerns. Pungi I
>> believe was initially created in the Fedora 7 realm and Jarod
>> backporting things to FC6 was just a minor inconvenience. This goes
>> for RHEL5 also but a little more tweaking may have been involved  
>> but I
>> don't think I would label things severe. Then again I have been known
>> to be wrong on occasion ;-)
>>
> Well since you now seem in a frame of mind to correct your elders, let
> me just say you are right, and Jarod would certainly never have  
> used the
> word severe to describe his community baby pungi.  "Severe" in this  
> case
> was used to discriminate between the mild stretch needed to accomodate
> MythDora and a much more _________ stretch needed to do a Centos
> version.  When you get old, your range of vocabulary diminishes right
> along with your memory.  In any case, I read his comment as equivalent
> to "My baby got an A- in English today" rather than "My baby is  
> going to
> write a sequel to War and Peace".  ;-)
> Chris
> P.S.  Would you buy "ambitious"?  ;-)

My name seems to be bouncing about to and fro here, with regard to  
things that may or may not have been said and/or qualified/quantified  
in ambiguous and/or disambiguous ways... Or something. :)

So I'll rehash it all:

Getting pungi to work on FC6 was a bit of work, which required back- 
porting stuff from pre-F7 rawhide. I'd originally suspected similar  
work required to make pungi work on RHEL5.

Well, we (Red Hat) have since had a request come in from a customer  
for a working pungi on RHEL5. I took a look at doing the same song  
and dance I went through for FC6, and quickly determined that there  
was no way in hell we could push that on a customer, so I sat down  
and talked with the primary pungi author (Jesse Keating) about how we  
could go about producing a working pungi fork for RHEL5.

After a bit of hacking between Jesse and myself last week, I'm now  
able to produce a functional RHEL5 respin ISO set pointing our pungi  
(forked off the latest hg pungi) at only stock RHEL5 bits. There are  
a few things left to touch up here and there, but yeah, we're pretty  
close to a RHEL5-based, Myth-infused ISO spin being a fairly trivial  
thing to do.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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