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Bug 1876563 - Remove anaconda from the rhel-livemedia.ks example kickstart
Summary: Remove anaconda from the rhel-livemedia.ks example kickstart
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: lorax
Version: 8.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks: 1812825
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-07 13:36 UTC by Jan Stodola
Modified: 2021-09-03 15:25 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: lorax-28.14.55-1.el8
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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 02:46:07 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:4662 0 None None None 2020-11-04 02:46:10 UTC

Description Jan Stodola 2020-09-07 13:36:10 UTC 
Description of problem:
The package anaconda-live was added [1] to the %packages section of /usr/share/doc/lorax/rhel-livemedia.ks, but the package is not part of RHEL-8.3 (not included in BaseOS/AppStream repositories).

Because of this change, it's not possible to build livemedia using rhel-livemedia.ks

[1] https://github.com/weldr/lorax/commit/93d8e1ed0de8cfddda2410b3050cc4f3f0267804

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lorax-28.14.54-1.el8
anaconda-33.16.3.21-1.el8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install lorax
2. make a copy of /usr/share/doc/lorax/rhel-livemedia.ks and modify installation urls and root password
2. livemedia-creator --make-iso --ks rhel-livemedia.ks --no-virt

Actual results:
missing packages: anaconda-live

Expected results:
livemedia-creator finishes successfully.
Comment 1 Brian Lane 2020-09-08 16:34:49 UTC 
Anaconda needs to provide this.
Comment 2 Jiri Konecny 2020-09-09 13:49:44 UTC 
Hi Brian,

We don't want to provide this package because live installations are not supported on RHEL. By removing the package we are strongly teling users that we don't support this scenario. Could you please remove this dependency from the templates instead?
Comment 3 Brian Lane 2020-09-09 16:33:13 UTC 
This is a pretty big change from previous behavior. While we've never officially supported live images, we have made it possible for users to make their own . Removing this makes that impossible since it's not just a matter of a few required packages, the liveinst script is also missing.
Comment 4 Brian Lane 2020-09-09 17:00:54 UTC 
If this isn't going to be shipped then the rhel-livemedia.ks in lorax needs to drop Anaconda and just be a live desktop image.
Comment 6 Jan Stodola 2020-09-09 17:12:17 UTC 
qa_ack+ to remove anaconda from rhel-livemedia.ks
It should be mentioned, that although the liveinst script was part of RHEL-8.2, it wasn't possible to run an installation from live media, see for example bug 1665473.
Comment 7 Brian Lane 2020-09-09 19:31:28 UTC 
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/1072
Comment 12 Scott Dowdle 2020-09-12 03:26:39 UTC 
So do I understand the outcome of the discussion here... that install from live media via anaconda is going to be removed and no longer possible... and that live media is possible, just not installable live media?

Or it is going to be fixed so we can have live installable media?
Comment 13 Jan Stodola 2020-09-14 07:58:11 UTC 
Installation from live media was not a supported feature and it was broken at least in RHEL-8.2. So yes, it will be possible to build live media, but not installing them.
Comment 14 Scott Dowdle 2020-09-14 14:33:09 UTC 
Yeah, I was hoping to get it fixed but where you could install from live media.  Where do I send the bribery money?
Comment 15 Jan Stodola 2020-09-14 15:31:44 UTC 
Scott, feel free to report a new bug to support installations from live media.
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 02:46:07 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (lorax bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4662
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