Hi folks,
Here is my attempt at a brief summary as a starting point for our further discussion.
At our first video meeting, we arrived at an approach to create all installation media
with one tool if possible. Kiwi is obviously the tool of choice at the moment.
I think there are several steps to be taken now:
1.
We should try Kiwi, preferably with our VM image. There is already a template from the
Cloud WG. Here's what came to mind:
(a) Apparently Kiwi does not use kickstart files. How does this work with Anaconda?
b) What happens to our PXE network installation?
c) Do we have a "playing field" on Koji where we can experiment, or should we
install our own Kiwi instance, e.g. on the server where I had developed our VM with
ImageFactory (and where we can all have access, as with the Wildfly server)?
2.
We should contact the other editions, and especially RelEng, to coordinate the course of
action. RelEng is currently busy with F40. We can only start with it after its release.
3.
Another consideration is time. Currently, F41 is built in Rawhide as before, so it will
certainly be released that way. The question is whether we want to continue publishing our
iso files unchanged (and with errors). One possibility would be to at least remove the
difference between DVD and netboot. We have to look at their build steps anyway, whether
with the current tools or with Kiwi. The logic should be the same.
This leads to at least 3 alternatives for the next steps we take.
1. we wait until F40 is published and then contact RelEng about the options for the best
way forward.
2. we meet for another video meeting, e.g. next week, and spend some time trying out Kiwi
and looking at it in detail.
3. we wait with Kiwi for the discussion with RelEng and the other editions and try in a
next meeting specifically to determine the differences between DVD and netbook and to test
how big a modified DVD file would become (this would be our issue #32 [1], 2 years old.
Can anyone think of any other ways?
We should decide what we want to do next and when. One option would be another video
session on Wednesday, April 24.
Best
Peter
[1]
https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/32
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