Bug 1282496

Summary: lmc should support liveimg squashfs creation
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Component: loraxAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
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Description Fabian Deutsch 2015-11-16 15:30:42 UTC 
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It would be nice if lmc could support the creation of liveimg compatible squashfs images.

This should be quite easy, because it only requires lmc to wrap the fs image in a squashfs.

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Comment 1 Brian Lane 2015-11-16 19:54:36 UTC 
The reason why I haven't done this is because it's really easy to put a resulting fsimage file into a directory and run mksquashfs on it. In order to support it the user would have to also pass a directory name or tree since not everyone is going to want to use the same layout.
Comment 2 Fabian Deutsch 2015-11-17 06:08:52 UTC 
(In reply to Brian Lane from comment #1)
> The reason why I haven't done this is because it's really easy to put a
> resulting fsimage file into a directory and run mksquashfs on it.

Right, I agree that it's a quite simple process, however, it would be very convenient to have a one-step process to generate this squashfs (which can be used by anaconda and dracut alike [as you know]), without the manual intervention step.

> In order
> to support it the user would have to also pass a directory name or tree
> since not everyone is going to want to use the same layout.

Hm. At least dracut isn't to flexible about the location of the image IIRC it is squashfs-root/LiveOS/*.img which it is looking for.

Let me note that I don't think of a generic wrap-in-squashfs mode, rather the specific squashfs image to be consumable by anaconda and dracut.
Comment 4 Fabian Deutsch 2015-12-01 07:55:44 UTC 
It is already supported using the --make-pxe-boot switch