[cloud] #44: hey we should have a vagrant base box

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#44: hey we should have a vagrant base box
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 Reporter:  mattdm  |       Owner:
     Type:  task    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Future
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Comment (by walters):

 Replying to [comment:8 purpleidea]:
 > Easy to change this. (one-liner).

 I'm not so sure it's that easy.  The problem I hit with using libguestfs
 for this sort of stuff is that you really need to be sure the SELinux
 label of critical files like /etc/passwd is set.  It's hard to do that
 from the outside - doing it *inside* the system on boot means we use the
 target policy.

 > I actually prefer my makefile/virt-builder approach, but I obviously am
 fine with other people working on different methods.

 The makefile versus shell versus javascript or whatever is mostly a red
 herring I think.  The issue I see is more the second part - the semantics
 around how we change the contents of the target system.

 > I figured I'd step up to help with this, since it was apparently a "very
 long-standing request".

 Definitely!  Do you have some bandwidth to work on this/continue the
 conversation here?

 There are a few aspects to this:

 1) Content definition - what packages are installed?
 2) Partition layout
 3) System default configuration (vagrant user, vagrant ssh keys, sudo)

 To me, Anaconda+kickstart files are the thing to use for #1 and #2.  In
 other words we're just talking about another Fedora Cloud type image,
 except with Vagrant as the "hypervisor".

 For #3, kickstart files are probably also the way to go.  My script was
 just a hack because I didn't have ostree support in Anaconda, but now I
 do.

 There's a general question here about anaconda versus virt-builder; when
 should you "rebuild" versus "post-customize".  To me the answer comes down
 to the package set.  If for example we wanted different packages in the
 Vagrant image, then it would need to be an Anaconda rebuild.

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