Bug 1026841

Summary:	virt-install runs anaconda with method= instead of inst.repo=
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	berrange, crobinso, kparal, virt-maint
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Description Kamil Páral 2013-11-05 14:13:24 UTC

Description of problem:
If I run a command like this:

$ virt-install --name FedoraTest --ram 1024 --disk pool=default,size=10 --location http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/20-Beta-RC2/Fedora/x86_64/os/ --initrd-inject ks.cfg --extra-args "ks=file:/ks.cfg"

it starts Anaconda with method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/20-Beta-RC2/Fedora/x86_64/os/ . method= is obsolete, inst.repo= should be used instead:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

Even though Anaconda tries to hold compatibility, it causes some weird bugs in corner cases, like bug 1026834.

Please start using inst.repo= instead of method= when running Anaconda.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-install-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20.noarch

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2013-11-05 15:51:59 UTC

How long has 'inst.repo' actually been available? Since we will need to maintain back compat for old RH distros where it isn't available

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2013-11-05 16:20:42 UTC

Anaconda documentation is a mess (every single page claims that it is outdated). But according to the wiki page history, method= is deprecated (and repo= is available) since June 2008.

The absolutely correct version is inst.repo= (but repo= should currently work as well). The general "inst" prefix is quite new, I think a year or so. If you need this information, please put needinfo on bcl or some other anaconda team member. Thanks.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2014-01-18 18:26:24 UTC

Fixed upstream now:

commit 073b3a69e38dab0c21d11aff85fa46164825c1ef
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Date:   Sat Jan 18 13:04:47 2014 -0500

    urlfetcher: Use inst.repo kernel option for new RH distros (bz 1026841)

Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2014-01-18 18:26:56 UTC

Since the current situation works fine, and this will hit rawhide within the month, just closing.