Bug 10292 – Python on bootdisk for 1.4?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Keith Edmunds 2002-11-05 15:27:24 UTC]

This is more of a request than a bug: I hope this forum is appropriate. Is it
likely or possible that Python could be included on the 1.4 ISO image? The
reason I ask - and I suspect I am not alone - is that we currently have an
automated, customised build procedure which is written in bash. It _badly_ needs
rewriting in a more maintainable language, and Python would fit the bill. At the
moment, though, Python isn't on the 1.4 rc1 CD.

So: any plans to do so? If not, well, back to hacking bash...

Keith

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-11-05 17:02:31 UTC]

I was under the impression that since portage is written in python, that python
was, in fact, on the ISO.  could you be a little clearer?

[Comment 2 Keith Edmunds 2002-11-05 17:17:53 UTC]

Sorry, I should have been clearer. At the moment Python is embedded in the
stage-x tarballs, and is only available after the target disk has been
partitioned and the stage-x tarball unpacked. I was requesting that Python be
available from boot time onwards in the same way as, for example, bash is today. 

Is that clearer?

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-22 01:04:34 UTC]

Is this script that you're trying to run some kind of "in-house" jobbie? Care 
to share it? :) To address the bug report directly, we *could* add it, but 
nothing else needs it and it will reduce the space available on the CD. It may 
happen, or maybe not. Still considering it.

[Comment 4 Keith Edmunds 2003-01-16 09:02:30 UTC]

Can share the build procedure; personal mail sent to drobbins to take this
further if required.

[Comment 5 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-09-09 15:35:10 UTC]

Still not sure on this.

[Comment 6 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-09-09 15:35:35 UTC]

When we have the custom livecd script ready, this user should be able to roll his own livecd with python on it fairly easily.