Bug 435976
| Summary: | RFE: anaconda should use a mirrored repo on a hard drive | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Todd Denniston <todd.denniston> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | billcrawford1970, bruno, jvonau3 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-04 19:01:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Todd Denniston
2008-03-04 18:48:54 UTC
Not saying that this shouldn't be changed, but afaik the requirement to have a directory full of ISOs for a "hard disk" type install has existed for a long time (at least back as far as RHL8/RHEL3 - I think since this install type was first introduced). You're not actually limited to msdos for holding the isos. But the reason that the requirement is for the ISOs and not the tree is that we actually used to allow the tree, but people would inevitably only have partial mirrors of what they thought mattered and installs would fail. After a few years of these bugs, we cut our losses and also reduced the testing matrix a bit. So not really interested in adding it back and making things worse again Thats why this is an RFE=Request For Enhancement. and I be not the only one: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-March/msg00082.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-October/msg01207.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-October/msg01249.html Yes jigdo and isoinfo help, but why should I have to build a DVD image when I have the correct stuff right there on the hard drive. Re Comment #2 So you never have folks reporting problems with the NFS mounted file systems? Yes, this comes up from time to time. But the amount of requests is very very low in comparison to the amount of effort required for maintaining another path through the installer. And while there's a very occasional such report with NFS, they're far rarer -- I suspect due to the higher barrier to entry keeping out people who are more likely to do things that are unwise. I had occasion to wish for this feature. I only have one x86_64 machine and wanted to use buildinstall to build a new set of images on that machine and then use them to install in another partition. (netinst.iso didn't work and I thought rebuilding it might use a slightly more recent version of anaconda.) It seems silly to have to go to an extra step (making an iso file that will end up being loop mounted to get back the original structure) or copying the images back to another machine so that they can be used for a url install. While this is not a high priority, it is something that might help people with only one local machine participate in rawhide testing. As far as the broken trees goes, I think that is a separate problem. My guess would be that people aren't skimping on getting the trees, but probably they are dealing with out of sync mirrors. Even the fedoraproject mirror has partial updates regularly. I have learned to check the time stamps to make sure that the images, repo meta data and packages all appear to be in sync. There might be things that the project could do to cut down on this. Perhaps the master could be doing directory renames (if it isn't) instead of copying over updates. I understand the increased complexity in Anaconda, but I have also wanted to have this option available. I'm wondering why the installer failing causes any more issue than trying to debug network installs that fail? The same outputs would end up on virtual terminals (can't find file xxx, etc). Wouldn't it be possible to install from local harddrive, with files, only if there is repo metadata present? That would at least remove alot of the issue with half-complete mirrors right? (essentially, a network install with a local path) It would be perfectly acceptable to insist on metadata; a particular use for this is test installs of rawhide, where doing it every day might be considered prohibitive via the usual make-an-iso route not just because of the cost of DVD blanks, but for the time involved. (in other words, why can this not be supported only within rawhide, or with an option like "iamanext4developer" ;o)) Funny, I have patches to make this work. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2008-March/msg00092.html And proof that it works, note the boot line at the top: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=298871 If this does not make it into anaconda proper, I could maintain this setup if there is interest and someone could host the initrd.img for me. |