On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:19:16PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 07:12:56PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:29:49PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >>> >> Not exactly. It also never worked for live ISO and that is not a major > >>> >> issue since UIs aren't supposed to offer automatic installer against > >>> >> live medias. > >>> > > >>> > Is this documented somewhere? > >>> > >>> This question made me go catch an Anaconda dev: > >> > >> I was asking if this is documented somewhere in libosinfo API > >> documentation. Also note that your statement is « UIs aren't supposed to > >> offer automatic installer against live medias. », not « UIs aren't > >> supposed to offer automatic installer against Fedora live medias ». > > > > Oh, I thought the latter sentence would be self-evident to you so I > > thought you must be asking about the former. > > > > We have a 'installer' flag on media and media that do not provider > > installers are supposed to have it 'false'. AFAIK the idea of that > > flag was to inform applications that this media does not do > > installation. However, now that you mentioned it, I see that we don't > > set those on any of the live Fedora media. I think we should. > > Looking more into the git history, I now remember that "installer" > flag indicates if media provides installation or not. Since its > possible to do installation from Fedora live medias (just like with > kickstart), installer=true (which is default) is correct for them. > > Having said that, at least Boxes doesn't look at this flag and since i > don't really know of any purely live media (GNOME used to produce them > but not any more afaik) and I don't see how this distinction of purely > live or not would be of any benefit to apps, I wonder if we could > simply change of 'installer' flag to whether or not media supports > automated installation? Actually, I think installer=false would make sense for disk 2, 3, 4 in the media entries for older fedoras. You probably can't boot nor start an install from these, you need to use the first disk. Christophe
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