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Bug 1533854 - Update building foreman discovery image chapter
Summary: Update building foreman discovery image chapter
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 6.3.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: Melanie Corr
QA Contact: Sergei Petrosian
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Depends On: 1569901 1624027
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-12 11:47 UTC by Lukas Zapletal
Modified: 2019-09-26 17:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-10-01 14:12:57 UTC
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Description Lukas Zapletal 2018-01-12 11:47:16 UTC 
I am sure we have a section about how to build FDI image from sources. It basically links https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-discovery-image repository asking users to read README and follow that.

Now things changed in Satellite 6.3, we ship source kickstart so users can easily build the FDI from scratch. I recorded a short video describing the process, please turn it into some chapter or appendix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPQZThbMCbY

Here are some commands used:

yum install livecd-tools

yum install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/livecd-tools-21.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/hfsplus-tools-540.1.linux3-4.el7.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/python-imgcreate-21.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

livecd-creator -v --title="Discovery Image" --compression-type=xz --cache /var/cache/build-fdi --config /usr/share/foreman-discovery-image/foreman-discovery-image.ks -f fdi -t /var/tmp

repo --name=rhel --baseurl=...
Comment 1 Melanie Corr 2018-04-10 13:22:51 UTC 
Hi Lukas

We can only document things that you can do on a RHEL server or workstation using packages from the standard repos. 

From the video, it seems that you can only perform this procedure by either using a Fedora or CentOS workstation, or by using unsupported packages in RHEL. 

Please let us know if there is a way to do this in a Red Hat supported way.

As you said in the video there is no supported way to do this on RHEL, I will close as CANTFIX for now.

Please feel free to reopen if and when there is a Red Hat supported way.
Comment 3 Lukas Zapletal 2018-04-20 08:44:25 UTC 
We will put livecd-tools package back into repos, ignore the centos mention in the video and please do the documentation change, I expect this to land in 6.3.4.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1569901

Note: Some Satellite versions (6.3.0 - 6.3.4) will not automatically pull the livecd-tools, ask the user to yum install it if they are missing livecd-creator command.

Thanks!
Comment 4 Melanie Corr 2018-04-20 08:59:40 UTC 
Thank you, Lzap. 

Will start on this today.
Comment 9 Melanie Corr 2018-10-01 14:12:57 UTC 
These changes are now live on the Customer Portal: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.4-beta/html/provisioning_guide/provisioning_bare_metal_hosts#building_a_satellite_discovery_image
Comment 10 Andrew Dahms 2018-10-17 01:10:14 UTC 
Updated release flags.
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