[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db] fedora: Enable repos when installing a Server ISO

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8 January 2017 at 19:16, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> > <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 6 January 2017 at 21:39, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Fedora installer has been broken since different "working groups" have
> >>> been introduced (Fedora 21).
> >>
> >> You mean it's been broken for Server? I clearly remember fixing and
> >> testing it for all Fedoras until F24.
> >
> > For the Server iso, yes, it doesn't work since Fedora 21.
> > You probably have tested just the netinst ISO.
> >
> >>
> >>> The reason of the breakage is that the "Server" media doesn't contain
> >>> all the packages needed to perform the "Workstation" installation done
> >>> by the desktop profile.
> >>
> >> IIRC the decision was to only do "desktop profile" express
> >> installation for netiso, since it doesn't make much sense to install
> >> Desktop for server ISO.
> >
> > I sincerely don't understand why it would make sense to do so for
> > netinst ISO but not for the normal one.
> 
> Because "desktop" profile maps to workstation but workstation didn't
> have an installer ISO. Also netiso is very generic so you can argue
> both ways for that and you'll be correct. :)
> 
> > Also, Boxes does recognize the ISO as an express installation target
> > ... and fails when trying to perform that ...
> 
> That's a bug then.
> 
> >>> The only way to solve this issue is by enabling the repos that contain
> >>> the needed packages during installation.
> 
> Or we don't offer express installation for Server.

Yeah, IMHO it makese little sense to install the "desktop" profile when
you have the "Server" ISO - the "jeos" profile is really server targetted.

Our XML doesn't express any relationship between media and installers
though - installers are just listed standalone. I wonder if we need to
introduce some kind of relation there to filter it ?


Regards,
Daniel
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