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--- Comment #3 from Jiří­ Suchomel <jsuchome@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-06-04 04:23:19 
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(In reply to comment #2 from Dean Hilkewich)
> There are a few problems with that.
>
> First the Add-On module requires that you have the packages locally.  YaST
> package manager so far as I can see does not have an option to save packages,
> so it requires you to download them manually resulting in the very real
> possibility of missing a few package dependencies. This creates a huge amount
> of work and makes it very easy to miss some packages and does not make it easy
> at all when your wanting to add rpm's that are readily available on the
> repositories.

Hm, it may be a nice feature to allow Add-On creator to use your installation
sources and not only take the local rpm's. Would such feature satisfy your
needs?

> For example what I have to do right now to create custom iso is this.
> ...
>
> -Open up Product Creator
> -Select my Base Source (which it seems can only be the Installation DVD,
> selecting the factory repo results in griping about not being able to find a
> description of some sorts in the boot floppy directory)

This is bug 396704

> -Digitally Sign the Product (requiring an insane amount of the same password 
> > to be entered way too many times) and then create my ISO or Repo

Looks like a bug as well...

> ...
>
> Then when I want to install the ISO it shows all of the original patterns, the
> big problem with this is creating the ISO does not copy all of the original
> items on the DVD as well so selecting on of the prebuilt patterns results in
> missing files and you have to remember all of the packages you added on it.  

Bug 393515

> If
> I had an option there to select my package selection based on the packages I
> can be assured that my personal preferences are going to be installed with all
> the needed dependencies.
>
> Now ideally IMHO Product Creator would have the capabilty to work like this.
>
> -Open up Product Creator
> -Asks me if I want to create a restore DVD of the installed system or do one 
> of
> the other present options
> -I select yes to the restore DVD option
> -It automatically selects my active repositories and parses the installed
> packages (the user-packages.xml file) and creates that as a Pattern upon
> installation as we already know that the dependencies that are needed are on
> the system and satisfied.

Looks like the sufficient option would be another radiobutton/checkbox before
the dialog with the source selection called "clone this system", which would
preselect your own sources and the installed packages.

Ladislav, what do you think?


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