[MythDora] mythdora for RHEL5
gchris
gchris at bellsouth.net
Mon Oct 8 23:47:26 CEST 2007
Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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. :)
>
Yes, but always with luv! ;-)
It's the kind of attention Hillary and Rudy would die for.
> 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.
>
That begs two questions.
You seem to be suggesting that MythRHEL could be spun off RHEL5 in
exactly the same way Centos was spun off, by removing RH proprietary
material and substituting original replacements. Is that correct?
Is a custom build of pungi built in response to a paying customer's
request still open source, or is it RH proprietary? I know how IBM
would view that but how does RH see it?
Chris
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