F40 Change Proposal: Run Anaconda dir/image installations only in non-interactive text mode (Self-Contained

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Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Anaconda_dir_and_image_installations_in_automated_text_mode

== Summary ==

Anaconda will require a fully defined kickstart file for installations
into an image or a directory and these installations will run only in
a non-interactive text-based user interface.


== Owner ==

* Name: [[User:vponcova| Vendula Poncova]]
* Email: <vponcova@xxxxxxxxxx>
* Package: anaconda

* Name: [[User:bcl| Brian C. Lane]]
* Email: <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx>
* Package: lorax (livemedia-creator)




== Detailed Description ==

The Anaconda installer supports installations into a local image (via
the <code>--image</code> cmdline option) or a local directory (via the
<code>--dirinstall</code> cmdline option, the directory is usually a
mount point of a custom image). These types of installations are
supported by two user interfaces (text-based and GTK-based) in fully
interactive, partially interactive and non-interactive modes. We
believe that there is no strong reason for all these options, so we
would like to minimize the scope of this functionality and support
only the text-based non-interactive mode (specifically the
command-line mode). It means that Anaconda will require a fully
defined kickstart file and run only in the text-based user interface
(during dir and image installations).

== Feedback ==


== Benefit to Fedora ==

This is a preliminary step for an eventual deprecation and removal of
the Anaconda support for dir and image installations. This
functionality is being slowly taken over by [https://www.osbuild.org/
Image Builder] that is explicitly designed for building images and
provides a much broader and better support for all kinds of images.
Limiting the scope of dir and image installations in Anaconda will
allow its developers to focus their resources on more prospective
areas.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: Will submit a pull request for
<code>[https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
anaconda]</code> to run dir and image installations only in the
non-interactive text mode and update
<code>[https://weldr.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html
livemedia-creator]</code> to reflect these changes if necessary.

* Other developers: No impact.

* Release engineering: No impact. There should be zero impact on
building official Fedora images since these processes are fully
automated and use fully defined kickstart files.
[https://pagure.io/releng/issues #Releng issue number]

* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

* Alignment with Community Initiatives:


== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==



== How To Test ==


== User Experience ==
It will be still possible to use <code>anaconda</code> and
<code>livemedia-creator</code> for installations into a local image or
a directory with a fully defined kickstart file. Users can notice the
following changes:

* If a user requests a dir or image installation, the installer runs
in the text mode.
* If the user doesn't specify a kickstart file, the installer will
report an error and abort.
* If the specified kickstart file is incomplete, the installer will
report an error and abort.
* All options for specifying the user interface will be ignored (for
example, <code>--graphical</code>)


== Dependencies ==


== Contingency Plan ==

* Contingency mechanism: (What to do?  Who will do it?) N/A (not a
System Wide Change)

* Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== Documentation ==

N/A (not a System Wide Change)


== Release Notes ==

-- 
Aoife Moloney

Fedora Operations Architect

Fedora Project

Matrix: @amoloney:fedora.im

IRC: amoloney
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