On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 00:35 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > Hello, Bryan > IANAHNBARHE --- look inward, angel > Following the IRC channel that the #anaconda developers use as > an intercom, there is a clear mandate to push away text mode, > and to pare down marginal case cruft. One assumes this is as > refactorings for maintainability and narrowing the scope I haven't questioned text mode, and I'm all for pushing people to use Kickstarts (reproducibility), unless installing in GUI mode. I understand removing that overhead, and it's totally unrelated to this ... (read on) On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 15:40 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I suspect that it's only used when things are only distributed as ISOs. So > it would be more common for certain Fedora derivatives than Fedora itself. On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 07:25 -0400, Richard.Johnson wrote: > Whereas, I use it all the time. Changing a reference to a single, > pristine ISO image is a lot simpler than having to also manage mount > points and/or unpacked ISOs--especially when chasing weekly code > drops (read RHEL6). This is what I was largely driving at. Customers sometimes have requirements for the prestine "GA" releases of software. And while I would hope every customer has a Spacewalk-Satellite server, there are times when even a disconnected server is not an option in secure environments, remote locations ... and ... first-hand here ... consultant notebooks. Granted, one could loopback mount the ISO -- which is read-only -- so it could be served up via HTTP. If this is the suggestion, then we _need_ to document doing such for customers, as a standard operating procedure (SOP). A lot of these approaches seem to slip through these decisions, and the workaround is undocumented and not commonly known. -- Bryan J Smith Senior Consultant Red Hat, Inc Professional Consulting http://www.redhat.com/consulting mailto:bjs@xxxxxxxxxx +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx (Blackberry/Red Hat-External) -------------------------------------------------------- You already know Red Hat as the entity dedicated to 100% no-IP-strings-attached, community software development. But do you know where CIOs rate Red Hat versus other software and services firms for their own, direct needs, year after year? http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
