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

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:12:20AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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?

livemedia-creator has a --no-vitr mode which uses anaconda's --image
install mode. It doesn't currently work for F18, but does work for F17.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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