Re: livemedia-creator --live-iso deliverables

Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:11:05 -0600
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
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Forgot to cc acarter on the original email

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 06:13:44 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I was running through runs of livemedia-creator in mock to figure out
> what exactly we need to get koji to run in order to produce the liveiso's I
> got things running and was able to produce a live iso. aside from things
> like the iso being ~1G bigger than what we get from livecd-creator I had
> one big surprise. The surprise was the output that we got. In Release
> engineering we want the tooling to make the artifact as we are going to
> ship it. This means that someone running the tool at home can make the same
> thing as what we make. I was expecting for output something along the lines
> of Fedora-Live- Workstation-x86_64-rawhide-20151215.iso  which is what we
> get from livecd- creator. Instead of just an iso what I got was a tree
> 
> EFI
> EFI/BOOT
> EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
> EFI/BOOT/MokManager.efi
> EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi
> EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg
> EFI/BOOT/fonts
> EFI/BOOT/fonts/unicode.pf2
> images
> images/pxeboot
> images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> images/install.img
> images/efiboot.img
> images/macboot.img
> images/product.img
> images/boot.iso
> isolinux
> isolinux/vmlinuz
> isolinux/initrd.img
> isolinux/isolinux.bin
> isolinux/vesamenu.c32
> isolinux/ldlinux.c32
> isolinux/libcom32.c32
> isolinux/libutil.c32
> isolinux/isolinux.cfg
> isolinux/grub.conf
> isolinux/boot.msg
> isolinux/splash.png
> isolinux/memtest
> LiveOS
> LiveOS/squashfs.img
> 
> where the only thing that we will ship is images/boot.iso but we will have
> to do manipulation of  the tree to keep what we want and name it correctly
> and discard all the extra bits.  this means that every use that makes
> livecds will need to write tooling to extract the boot.iso, rename it and
> discard the extra bits.
> 
> given http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Live/x86_64/
> as an example of how we ship live media it is not a great thing to have to
> do. I strongly feel that a small piece of additional code in
> livemedia-creator to correctly name the iso given that there is a
> --image-name flag is reasonable and will save every person that makes
> livemedia from having to rewrite basically the same function, or us just
> writing a  wrapper around livemedia- creator to do so.
> 
> I am happy to write the code but want to make sure that it will be welcome
> before I go off and do so.  This is a feature we are trying to get into the
> compose tools and process for Fedora 24 so that we can get rid of livecd-
> creator and appliance-creator once and for all
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dennis

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