Should Fedora revisit the idea having "one " image to be used across the cloud providers?

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:37:17 +0000
"Collins, Robert (HPCS)" <rbtcollins at hp.com> wrote:

> As far as using guestfs later in the build process - I don't see any
> need for that; we start with a tarball, we chroot into that, we make
> a filesystem matching the size of the content and rsync the contents
> over. The reason we start a new filesystem is that its faster: we
> started initially by cloning the original disk image and modifying,
> but it turns out that vendor images have wildly varying filesytem
> sizes and definitions, and we needed to provide images with well
> understood and documentable characteristics. Resizing ext*
> filesystems up and down isn't the fastest process, particularly on
> LTS style releases like Ubuntu LTS and RHEL.

so a issue with that, is that it breaks things, tar doesnt preserve
filesystem capabilities so on a fedora system and presumably furture
rhel things will be broken. filesystem capabilities have been taking
over from setuid/setgid in packages.  i pknow one thing that will be
broken is that ping wont work for a user.  the best way to great a
image is a automated install using kickstart or whatever the vendors
automated install method is

Dennis
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