livemedia-creator and the fedora build system [was Re: appliance-creator: how can I ...]

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:25:35PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> I think appliance-creator is pretty much unsupported at this point,
> isn't it? 

Yes, so moving to ami-creator might be a good choice.

> livemedia-creator is supposed to replace livecd-creator,
> appliance-creator and ami-creator, although it hasn't seen much testing
> for the last 2 cases it does have code that may work :) It is part of
> the lorax package.

I'm told by Fedora release engineering folks that we can't use that -- the
builders run in VMs, so virt-install isn't an option, and since
livemedia-creator is based around that, it's not available to us.

We could maybe engineer an alternate build process using the internal cloud,
adapting livecd creator to run on a cloud instance rather than with
virt locally. Or something. Any ideas?


On another note, Boxgrinder also is based around appliance creator, and it'd
be nice to play nicely with those people too.


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