Re: Deprecation of Anaconda boot parameters without inst. prefix

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

 



On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 08:58, Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:16 PM <jkonecny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Anaconda team has decided to deprecate use of Anaconda kernel boot
> > parameters without 'inst.' prefix. As you may already know you can
> > specify Anaconda kernel boot parameters both with and without 'inst.'
> > prefix (e.g. 'inst.repo=' or 'repo='). This deprecation means that when
> > you use Anaconda option without the 'inst.' prefix you will now get a
> > warning. We are *not* disabling parameters without a prefix yet.
> >
> > The reason for this is keep running into parameter conflicts with other
> > projects. As an example there is 'debug' parameter for both kernel and
> > us, so when you want to enable kernel debugging in installation
> > environment you will also enable Anaconda debug mode.
> >
> > Because of this I have created the following pull request for Anaconda:
> >
> > https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/2786
> >
> >
> > In case you have any objections please start discussion either on the
> > pull request or here.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jirka
>
> This may be a stupid question, but why are parameter namespaced with
> "inst." and not with "anaconda."? Is this a historical artifact?
> "inst" is a pretty generic term as well, and "anaconda" would
> definitely not lead to parameter overloading on the kernel cmdline.
>

I think inst was meant to be universal so that debian etc could use
it. However I will say if I have to type 20 anaconda.<item>=<flag> on
a serial terminal like I have to for the inst.<item>=<flag> I will
quickly be looking for any other installer to use. I regularly end up
with enough redraw problems because the line went over whatever SOL or
the HTML-console thinks a line should be and clearing the entire line
so I can't see what I am typing.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [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