Fwd: Contributing docs for maintaining and creating a Fedora remix

[Aidan Kahrs <abkahrs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarding here now that I am subscribed so that context is there.

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From: Aidan Kahrs <abkahrs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Contributing docs for maintaining and creating a Fedora remix
To: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, For participants of the Documentation Project <docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tigeros@xxxxxxxxxx <tigeros@xxxxxxxxxx>

Neal,

Bex is correct that the download server with the RPM repo and ISOs is a separate machine from the machine used to build the RPMs and ISOs. The build machine runs the latest version of Fedora and the download server runs CentOS to give a measure of LTS support while still staying within the RHEL family.

The download server could feasibly run any distribution.

Hope this clarifies.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Aidan Kahrs

abkahrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:20 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd
<bexelbie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +devel list to attract feedback from other folks in releng or working on
> other remixes and spins
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Aidan Kahrs <abkahrs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>> I know this thread has been kinda quiet the last few days. I wanted to put
>> out an update that the draft documentation is finished. I have gotten input
>> from my team. I would now like input from people within the docs effort
>> before I say it is ready to publish.
>>
>> The draft docs can be found at
>> https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/remix-building/blob/master/f/remix-ci.adoc
>
>
> One comment:
>
> 14: Why is this server required to be a CentOS server?  I have no problem
> with CentOS but we should explain that choice in the context of a Fedora
> Remix.
>

My experience is that it _should not_ be anything but a Fedora system.
It should be at least be the target Fedora version or higher. Ideally,
you always run the target version's livemedia-creator+Anaconda, which
is why Koji uses mock to set up the environment and then run it inside
of there.

In addition, it's a very bad idea to recommend using "createrepo"
instead of "createrepo_c", due to the former not supporting most of
Fedora's newer RPM features and potentially weird things happening
there.

If you're using livecd-creator, you can get away with a lot more,
since you're no longer sensitive to Anaconda's fragilities and the
build engine is DNF.



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