[Libosinfo] [PATCH 01/10] install-script: Add some missing docs

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:29:49PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> Not exactly. It also never worked for live ISO and that is not a major
>> issue since UIs aren't supposed to offer automatic installer against
>> live medias.
>
> Is this documented somewhere?

This question made me go catch an Anaconda dev:

----IRC chat---
<dcantrell> hi
<dcantrell> what is it you're looking for?
<zeenix> so firstly, is kickstart installation supported against f21
live WS iso?
<dcantrell> no, kickstart installs do not work from live media
<zeenix> ok, thanks. that was my understanding
<zeenix> <zeenix> jwb: i've been asked to provide proof of the
statement "kickstart isn't supported for live media" in review comment
of my patches
<zeenix> so i'm looking for some kind of statment anywhere from
anaconda team about that
<zeenix> a bz comment would suffice
<dcantrell> I'm not sure if we have an official statement.  I'm
looking now at the history of why it's that way, which would likely
point me to a bugzilla
<zeenix> otherwise i can just copy & paste this chat as last resort :)
<dcantrell> give me some miuntes here
<zeenix> sure!
<dcantrell> ok, I've got some info
<dcantrell> so we do have code that was meant to support live image
kickstart installs, but with bug #1027160 the default changed in
anaconda to explicitly prevent kickstart installations from the live
media
<dcantrell> this came down more to policy rather than technical capability
<dcantrell> but that's just the policy for the Fedora Live media
<dcantrell> meaning you can't initiate a kickstart install using the Live media
<dcantrell> but we do support kickstart installs of the live image payload
<dcantrell> the trick is that you need to start your install using the
Fedora Server installation media, but then have your kickstart file
point at the live image from the Live os tree
<dcantrell> here's a writeup:
<dcantrell> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart/KickstartingFedoraLiveInstallation
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I guess this is as official as it gets:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027160#c8

>To be honest, I see that statement as
> a workaround for lack of a better API to check whether a media supports
> automatic install.

The statement is about whether or not these patches introduce a new
issue to the best of my knowledge.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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