On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:05:19AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Isn't it true the install media ISOs are available indefinitely? And > > if so the security cat is already out of the bag, so that's not a very > > good argument. I'd say if we wanted to do something better it would be > > an image that's usable for both VM and containers, and would be the > > state of that version at the time it went EOL, i.e. it has all > > available updates baked into it. And then de-emphasize the original > > ISO as the way to run older versions of Fedora. > > It is true that install media ISOs are available forever, but we don't > go backwards in time and create vagrant boxes or IaaS cloud qcow > images of old EOL'd Fedora releases that went EOL before those > technologies existed and/or became popular. I am actually, for virt-builder. There's a bunch of reasons to do this. Whether they are good or not, you can decide, but here they are: - Test images for detection of old versions of Fedora/RHEL/etc (for virt-inspector and other monitoring tools). - Test images for virt-v2v. - Environments for reproducing old bugs (however I would generally reject a bug report if it referred to some ancient / EOL'd Fedora). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
