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Bug 1767551 - Limit image types to those supported by the arch that lorax-composer is running on
Summary: Limit image types to those supported by the arch that lorax-composer is runni...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: cockpit-composer
Version: 8.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.2
Assignee: jgiardin
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Depends On: 1751998
Blocks: 1673744
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-31 16:33 UTC by Brian Lane
Modified: 2019-11-22 16:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Clone Of: 1751998
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Last Closed: 2019-11-12 22:45:58 UTC
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Description Brian Lane 2019-10-31 16:33:09 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1751998 +++

Copying relevant comment from #1673744:


TL,DR: Composer needs to be able to disable some image types (especially for vendor clouds) because they are not supported everywhere.


> > > Note: cloud images not tested.
> > > Question: should we disable image types which are unsupported on various arches or do something differently ?
> > 
> > No. That makes things much harder to keep track of. We should fix them.
> 
> So I take this to mean that we should be able to build all cloud image types
> on secondary arches. Few comments:
> 
> 1) I don't think any of the vendors we support right now supports these
> secondary architectures. I found references for some support but nothing
> that I could find available for general use. This means we can only check if
> the images build.
> 
> 2) What if some vendor specific packages are not available on other arches?
> For example vmware and Azure guests install additional packages.
> 

Oh crud, that's true.

As it stands right now composer doesn't have any way to select supported image types by arch.
One way to do that is to remove them from the rpm when we build, but that seems a bit ugly.

--- Additional comment from Brian Lane on 2019-09-18 08:28:28 PDT ---

Renaming this to prevent confusion with multiarch (eg. 32 and 64 bit binaries in the same repo).

--- Additional comment from Brian Lane on 2019-10-28 17:14:51 PDT ---

PR - https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/891

compose/types now returns real 'enabled' flags, and blocks building with any disabled types.
Comment 1 Brian Lane 2019-10-31 16:35:12 UTC 
As of lorax-28.14.31-1 the 'enabled' bool in the /compose/types will actually reflect whether or not an image type can be built. On x86 there will be no change, but on other arches most of the cloud related image types will be disabled. Trying to build with a disabled type will return an error explaining that it is not supported.
Comment 2 Lars Karlitski 2019-11-01 15:46:10 UTC 
I don't think any change is necessary in cockpit-composer. It disables the output types in the Create Image dialog for which the API returns enables=false.

Am I missing something?
Comment 3 Brian Lane 2019-11-01 16:22:29 UTC 
That would be a question for Jenn, if there's nothing to do that's great news and you can close this. Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that they are no longer hard-coded to true.
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