----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Gilmore" <dennis(a)ausil.us>
> To: rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:29:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Livemedia-creator questions
>
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 09:52:45 AM Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday I was doing some livemedia-creator runs to figure out kickstart
>> changes and make sure we get the options right. I had a big shock in the
>> output of the live-iso option
>>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2015-December/msg00019.
>> html is the email I sent to the anaconda list but I wanted to discuss it
>> here to make sure we are all on the same page. My expectation was that we
>> would get an iso that we can ship. What we get is not close to that and
>> makes it extremely difficult to work with. Us and everyone making and
>> shipping livecds will need to write something to make the output shipable.
>>
>> Dennis
>
>
> Additionally this morning I found out that making disk images will not work
> at
> all. apparently device-mapper does not work in a mock chroot the response
> from
> the anaconda developers was that we should be doing everything in virt. The
> issues with doing things in virt is that we can not ensure that we are
> running
> the correct versions of lorax, something we can do in a mock chroot. We can
> not use virt as we do not have the ability to run virt everywhere.
>
> At this point I am not sure the best path forward. but we need to work out
> one.
After talking to Dennis, my take away / suggestions are this:
Dennis is going to test the pxe2live path to see if that 'just works'. If it
does, we could release with support for pxe2live since we don't have any way of
creating that today. However, we need to feel confident that we'll move forward with
livemedia-creator more generally before we do that. To get that confidence, we need to
have a heart to heart with the livemedia-creator guys about whether or not they plan to
support Fedora releng use cases in livemedia-creator (and potentially with the LVM team
wrt the device-mapper problem). If that's an option, great! If that's a dead end,
we're looking at writing a net new tool for this and we don't want to deploy
livemedia-creator just for pxe2live.
Thoughts?
Are the Fedora use cases unique? It would seem that the ability to generate live ISOs is
something that would be needed in a number of places.