Bug 1262419

Summary:	[RFE] Allow an addon to provide a full url for variant resources
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Pat Riehecky <riehecky>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jiri Konecny <jkonecny>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	dcantrell, dmach, misterbonnie, pkotvan, salmy
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Description Pat Riehecky 2015-09-11 15:25:30 UTC

Description of problem:
It would be helpful to users of respin media (or rebuilds such as CentOS and Scientific) could utilize the addons to provide additional package sets during interactive installs.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):anaconda-19.31.123-1


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.attempt to add non-local addons to .treeinfo
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Actual results:
unable to add non-local locations

Expected results:
able to add locations by full url

Additional info:
Patch at 
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/356

resolves

Comment 5 David Cantrell 2016-04-01 13:51:26 UTC

*** Bug 1285120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Daniel Mach 2016-04-06 07:22:15 UTC

.treeinfo contains addon/variant locations *relative* to base URL or media root.
Remote contents should be provided as a remote repository in Anaconda UI or kickstart.

Comment 7 David Cantrell 2016-04-14 19:59:46 UTC

Daniel does make a good point here.  Further discussion led to us changing to devel_ack- on this one.

Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2016-04-14 20:06:37 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.