On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 13:01 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
Hi Folks,
Here is my attempt at an updated brief summary of the current status
as a first impetus for our discussion at the upcoming meeting on May
1.
1.
Our initial information that Kiwi can also be used for the generation
of iso files is currently not applicable in this form. We will create
the iso files in unchanged form for at least a few more releases.
Peter,
I'm a bit confused about what you are trying to say in the paragraph
above. The meaning of the first sentence above escapes me. Would you
kindly help out a senior citizen (me) with perhaps a rephrasing or a
bit more detail?
If we don't want to spend another number of releases with the current
outdated iso files (and that seems very bad to me), then we should
start tackling the issues now, starting with the oldest one.
I seem to recall that the gentleman making the presentation and Kevin
suggested starting by creating as an exact duplicate of a current iso
as possible using the new kiwi features. Then begin tackle resolving
differences between different installation methods and media.
Since both the presenter and Kevin volunteered to assist us and help
"walk us though the media generation process", they seemed to feel this
distributing Fedora Server with existing content was doable for F41 and
rationalizing the installation results across the different images and
media was a realistic goal for F42.
!proposed:
So I suggest starting now with the oldest issue (#32,
https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/32) and doing another video
meeting soon.
2.
We don't have to decide at the moment which tool we will use to
create our images in the future. We would be busy with the iso files
for the time being.
Instead, we could discuss with RelEng what tools are available and
which is best. And in what timeframe the changeover needs to take
place.
Kiwi may not be optimal for us as we would have to maintain another
set of configuration files instead of using Kickstart files
throughout. Therefore, our situation differs from Cloud, which does
not need to create iso files for Cloud VMs. But there may be no other
solution that is better for us. And in the end, it also comes down to
choosing a solution that can be managed with the resources available
to Fedora (i.e. releng).
!proposed:
So I propose to postpone the decision about image generation for now.
If you have more information that was not presented at the video
meeting that led to your conclusion, then I would welcome hearing that
information.
John
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