Heads up: F23 products/spins, weak rpm dependencies, and you

[Brian C. Lane]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > In Fedora 23, rpm has grown support for weak dependencies (Recommends:
> > > and Suggests: tags). However, the compose tools have not been ported to
> > > dnf/libsolv yet, which means these tags will have no effect at image
> > > compose time.
> >
> > To clarify the state of things a bit -- lorax is already using DNF (and
> > python3) so anything creating a boot.iso or a DVD based on the boot.iso
> > will use DNF to select the packages.
> >
> > livecd-creator is still yum and python2 based. I have no plans to change
> > this, it's time for us to switch to using Anaconda via
> > livemedia-creator so that we can keep the installation logic in one
> > maintainable place.
> >
> > rel-eng is still using livecd-creator for Fedora 23. Hopefully
> > livemedia-creator koji integration will be working for Fedora 24. In the
> > meantime you can still use livecd-creator.
> >
> > Anaconda is using DNF by default and is also python3 for Fedora 23 so
> > any package based installations will use DNF.
> >
> > livemedia-creator documentation is here:
> > https://rhinstaller.github.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html
> >
> > And I've written a blog post here:
> > https://www.brianlane.com/creating-live-isos-with-livemedia-creator.html
> >
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> 
> ​What keeps us from completing livemedia-creator Koji integration for
> Fedora 23? And what of the state of pungi?​
> 

Time. And potential disruption due to using new things in the middle of
a release. Better to wait, get this running with rawhide first.

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