Patches for CentOS + Anaconda
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Tue Jan 6 17:28:26 UTC 2015
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 09:21 AM, David Shea wrote:
> Now that this email finally decided to wend its way to my inbox, I can
> reply to it, too!
>
> On 01/05/2015 04:55 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> > I didn't write these patches, but I'm forwarding them here because:
> >
> > 1) I see no reason they shouldn't be upstream, now that CentOS is part of the family
>
> I don't think a centos installclass needs to be part of upstream
> anaconda.
Ok. That's reasonable, but the major pain point here is that the install class improvements aren't in the RHEL7.0 Anaconda that is the subject of the patches.
I guess we'll just deal with it until newer versions come down.
> > 2) We're trying to ship Atomic CentOS, and without these patches, important things like the EFI variable break
>
> Break how?
The current state means that when doing Atomic CentOS, we need to merge the CentOS anaconda patchset with the Atomic patchset to get the correct efi_dir. (But only for UEFI, which is why this bug wasn't more obvious earlier)
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