tools for building cloud images in the buildsystem

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:

> On 2012-11-12 12:38, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> What I mean is: when I build a package for Fedora, I go through the Koji
>>> build system. I can't just kludge up a binary RPM and have it get sent
>>> out
>>> into the mirror. And, anyone can go into Koji and see the packages I've
>>> built -- and see how they were built, if they want. And although the GPG
>>> package signing process is also a black box to some degree, Bodhi gives
>>> pretty good transparency into the path an update takes.
>> 
>> They can see what happened, they may not actually be able to get the
>> pkg... We don't keep pkgs forever.
>
> But we do for releases, from which all previous release images have been 
> spun, AFAIK.  The cloud SIG made sure of that quite early on in its lifetime 
> to keep everything GPL-compliant, and it might be worth keeping in mind as we 
> consider how to build images for future releases.

and I a pretty sure for releases we're talking about something else. This 
is for continual/nightly image generation, unless I'm mistaken.

-sv