[fedora-build-service] #16: Support Sourcing kickstarts directly from spin-kickstarts git

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#16: Support Sourcing kickstarts directly from spin-kickstarts git
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 Reporter:  tflink          |      Owner:  somebody
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  minor           |  Milestone:  Public Deployment
Component:  Image Building  |    Version:
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 This one occurred to me today when I was updating the kickstart I use for
 building smoke DVDs - it would be nice to be able to source kickstarts
 directly from spin-kickstarts git instead of using them from the package.

 The spin-kickstarts package isn't updated very often for pre-releases and
 releng pulls straight from git for the TCs and Rcs

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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service/ticket/16>
fedora-build-service <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service>
A service to build fedora images with a somewhat arbitrary package set from the standard
fedora repos or builds from koji.

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#16: Support Sourcing kickstarts directly from spin-kickstarts git
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  Reporter:  tflink          |      Owner:  somebody
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
  Priority:  minor           |  Milestone:  Public Deployment
 Component:  Image Building  |    Version:
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:
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Comment (by amitksaha):

 The image builder does support referring to remote kickstart files via
 http:// URL's. So you could use the URL of the "raw" version of the
 kickstart from the git repository. However, it needs to be ksflattened..
 Read on for more.

 There are two things here:

 1. From the web interface/in distributed mode, if you use one of the
 standard kickstart files, then you don’t need to ksflatten them.
 Internally, it simply copies the kickstart files from
 /usr/share/kickstarts to the temp directory, so that any other kickstart
 file your kickstart refers to is already present. This is however based on
 the assumption that you have the the spin-kickstarts package installed --
 which I do during deployment. So, if we were to support URL's from the git
 repository, one solution is have a git clone of the spin-kickstarts
 repository. We will then need a way to distinguish between the packaged
 and the git version of the kickstarts. Perhaps, then we could support
 git:// url's and pick up the files directly from that repository..

 2. When you are using the service in local mode, you may specify a
 kickstart file which includes others, provided they are all in the same
 directory.

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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service/ticket/16#comment:1>
fedora-build-service <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service>
A service to build fedora images with a somewhat arbitrary package set from the standard
fedora repos or builds from koji.

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#16: Support Sourcing kickstarts directly from spin-kickstarts git
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  Reporter:  tflink          |      Owner:  somebody
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor           |  Milestone:  Public Deployment
 Component:  Image Building  |    Version:
Resolution:  fixed           |   Keywords:
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Changes (by amitksaha):

 * resolution:   => fixed
 * status:  new => closed


Comment:

 Support for kickstarts from spin-kickstarts.git is now available in the
 develop branch.

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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service/ticket/16#comment:2>
fedora-build-service <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-build-service>
A service to build fedora images with a somewhat arbitrary package set from the standard
fedora repos or builds from koji.