On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:05:19AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Chris Murphy
<lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
> Isn't it true the install media ISOs are available indefinitely? And
> if so the security cat is already out of the bag, so that's not a very
> good argument. I'd say if we wanted to do something better it would be
> an image that's usable for both VM and containers, and would be the
> state of that version at the time it went EOL, i.e. it has all
> available updates baked into it. And then de-emphasize the original
> ISO as the way to run older versions of Fedora.
It is true that install media ISOs are available forever, but we don't
go backwards in time and create vagrant boxes or IaaS cloud qcow
images of old EOL'd Fedora releases that went EOL before those
technologies existed and/or became popular.
I am actually, for virt-builder. There's a bunch of reasons to do
this. Whether they are good or not, you can decide, but here they
are:
- Test images for detection of old versions of Fedora/RHEL/etc
(for virt-inspector and other monitoring tools).
- Test images for virt-v2v.
- Environments for reproducing old bugs (however I would generally
reject a bug report if it referred to some ancient / EOL'd Fedora).
Rich.
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