On Wednesday 10 September 2008 01:39:30 am Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:14 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>> * FESCo approved the following feature for F10:
>> *
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplianceTools
> I just noticed and read this a little closer... and looked a the meeting
> minutes which were... sparse.
>
> This feature involves Fedora actually producing and distributing
> something we've never done before, a tarred image for use in a virtual
> machine. That's not your typical "spin" which is an iso format to be
> consumed by booting it on hardware, real or fake. Was any thought or
> discussion at all put into the implications of this? Was releng
> consulted about our ability to produce/test this during development
> cycles, particularly Beta? Do we have any thought as to how this would
> be advertised to users, and any documentation about how to use it as
> well?
>
> Could FESCo maybe take another gander at this feature page and comment
> on some of the above issues?
I messed up here I missed "Requires hosting a binary image on
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/" from what I remembered it was providing tools
to create appliances. not us actually providing appliance images. since
appliances are specialised configured things its really hard to provide a
single appliance. I personally have no issue with hosting appliance
kickstart files. but i think we need to review hosting a binary appliance
image
Dennis:
In this case the "appliance" is a running system with the bare number of
packages. It is just delivered as a raw disk as opposed to an ISO.
Again, I will make sure to be online for the meeting so we can discuss.
-- bk