Re: [fedora-virt] Supermin Fedora18
On 05/03/2013 12:53 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
Looking for some advice before I get carried away.
Can it be used in say "Fedora 18"
to build a "Fedora 17" yum cache from a file.list as an appliance
and then pull in whatever updates are availabe for "Fedora 17"
based on the *.list
Any gotchas?
Not tried your exact use-case.
But w/ Rich Jones' recently helped me on IRC to build the latest supermin appliance,
that's how I build it (most of it is in README):
1/ Clone the repo
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kashyap@$ git://git.annexia.org/git/a-fedora-appliance.git
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2/ Install supermin pkg
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kashyap@a-fedora-appliance$ sudo yum install supermin -y
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3/ Configure it
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kashyap@a-fedora-appliance$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
extracting /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules from glibc-2.16-28.fc18.x86_64.rpm ...
extracting /var/lib/logrotate.status from logrotate-3.8.3-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm ...
supermin: warning: some host files are unreadable by non-root
supermin: warning: get your distro to fix these files:
/lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
/sbin/unix_update
/usr/bin/chfn
/usr/bin/chsh
/usr/bin/ssh-agent
/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-keysign
/usr/libexec/utempter/utempter
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade.x86_64
/usr/sbin/groupadd
/usr/sbin/groupdel
/usr/sbin/groupmems
/usr/sbin/groupmod
/usr/sbin/useradd
/usr/sbin/userdel
/usr/sbin/usermod
writing supermin.d/base.img ...
writing supermin.d/hostfiles ...
touch stamp-supermin
mkdir -p supermin.d
rm -f supermin.d/init.img supermin.d/init.img-t
echo -e "init\nfirstboot" | cpio --quiet -o -H newc > supermin.d/init.img-t
mv supermin.d/init.img-t supermin.d/init.img
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4/ Build a supermin appliance
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kashyap@a-fedora-appliance$ make local-build
./build-a-fedora-appliance supermin.d kernel initrd root
kashyap@a-fedora-appliance$
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5/ Boot it
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$ make local-boot
./boot-a-fedora-appliance --local
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You can do more cool things like booting the appliance over a serial-console using qemu
'nographic' by editing the 'boot-a-fedora-appliance' file.
Hope that helps a bit.
/kashyap