Bug 810513

Summary: update repo= documentation about partial installation trees
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Kamil Páral 2012-04-06 13:47:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
Since F17 anaconda split its root image from initrd, we have a new use case - we want to boot the installer from PXE, but we want to install the packages from online repositories, without the requirement to have it mirrored locally. [1]

Currently repo= documentation says it's not possible:

"This option must point to a valid yum repository."
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options

However, Will Woods confirmed this use case is to be supported. Please update repo= documentation to say that the remote location doesn't have to contain package repository, just the required images (that is currently broken by bug 790348).

> adamw	 so you can pass repo= for a location which does not in fact contain packages, but does contain the installer	16:10
> adamw	 and anaconda should deal correctly with that?	16:10
> wwoods	 as long as there's a .treeinfo file that points to the [stage2] mainimage it should work

Or, wwoods proposed to create an alternative solution if repo= couldn't be adjusted:

> kparal	 I'm 100% sure that missing yum repository in the repo= location aborts installation. I reported bug about it. I can dig it up	16:14
> wwoods	 kparal: if that's the case I'll make sure we have some alternate method to boot with just images


Please either adjust the documentation (and fix the linked bug) (preferred), or create a new solution for that use case instead.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20120326#t15:50:50
Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2012-05-07 10:38:31 UTC 
I believe this is fixed by the new stage2= documentation:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options#stage2
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Anaconda_Boot_Options&action=historysubmit&diff=286392&oldid=280756

Thanks, Adam.