Re: [Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2014-07-11) meeting minutes and logs

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 




On 25 Jul 2014, at 07:52, Phil Knirsch wrote:

Summary:

Mattdm then followed with 2 1/2 additional topics:

1a. Identifying different Fedora products -- fedora-release-* contents and /etc/os-release

As I understand it, you are trying to decide where and how to set a flag that will signal the "product" that is either installed or to be installed. There was mention of dropping "product specific snippets in /usr/lib/os-release.d/" as one solution.

Does it have to be any more complex than the approach used by systemd? If fedora-release were to drop all product specific snippets in /usr/lib/os-release.d/, then a system admin could use a symbolic link in /etc/os-release.d to flag which product (or no product) he wanted installed. Similar to:

/etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/ graphical.target

a system admin could set a symbolic link:

/etc/os-release.d/product -> /usr/lib/os-release.d/workstation.product

Then, if a system admin wanted to change the box to a server, or to a non-productized box, he could simply change the symbolic link to:

/etc/os-release.d/product -> /usr/lib/os-release.d/server.product

or

/etc/os-release.d/product -> /usr/lib/os-release.d/generic.product

and then run whatever product syncing tool you develop -- perhaps:

dnf product-sync

2. a "generic fedora" netinstall

I appreciate your continued consideration of this item. I'm not clear on how Anaconda is supposed to work with different products, but if it is reading whatever product flag you set in order to determine the package list, couldn't a single netinstall CD work for all products, as well as a generic, non-productized install, assuming that there were a place in the UI to specify which product the user wanted installed?

--
Mike Pinkerton




--
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct





[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux