On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Justin Clift <jclift(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 24/04/2012, at 7:48 PM, Romain Vrignaud wrote:
<snip>
> If there is a willing of Aeolus community to work with other distro and that there is
a 'plugin way' to support
> other unattended mechanism, I would be pleased to look at a possible preseed support
for Factory.
We are *definitely* willing/open to working with other distro's. We've only
started with rpm based ones because had to start somewhere, and that's what
we know best. :)
Chris, for the bit you mention about transforming disk images into backend
provider formats (ie EC2, RHEV, vSphere, etc)... where should a person start?
This would be in the imagefactory. I haven't really been keeping an
eye on the factory, but a good place to start would be too look at
Fedora_ec2_builder.py in that source code. Ian will know better.
Also, on that thought... with live building in EC2 via JEOS, does that mean
there someone needs to find appropriate Debian JEOS's too?
> I think that an abstraction mechanism would be a real benefit for the project in
order to be able to
> support the building of as many distro as there are unattended installation
mechanism.
Chris might be the right person to discuss that bit with, as I *think* that
would be in the Oz part of things.
Yeah, this is the bit that already exists in Oz. Oz can currently use
preseed (Debian, Ubuntu), kickstart (RHEL, Fedora), drakx (Mandrake),
and some Windows-based unattended installation methods. It is the
"abstraction layer", so I think we have at least that bit of it
covered :).
Chris