[CentOS-devel] SIG AltAarch lorax iso options

[Karanbir Singh]

On 16/12/15 23:28, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/16/2015 10:02 AM, James O'Connor wrote:
>> So in irc discussions with kbsingh and Evolution, I have pieced this lorax invocation together for powerpc isos
>>
>> lorax '--product=CentOS AltArch' --version=7 --release=`date +%y%m%d` --source=file:///repo/7.2.1511/os/ppc64le --isfinal --nomacboot --noupgrade --buildarch=ppc64le '--volid=CentOS 7 ppc64le' /root/lorax/netinstall
>>
>> I’m hoping we can arrive at some consensus for product, release, and volid fields for all SIG AltArch flavors.
> 
> So, I'd like to change a few things up in this.
> 
> The product should be either 'CentOS Linux AltArch' or 'CentOS Linux 7
> AltArch'. This helps separate the CentOS Project from the distribution.
> Putting the major version in gives a bit more info for the iso/boot
> display and anaconda. I could be convinced to leave the version out, but
> Linux needs to be there.
> 
> The --release should match the distro release for point-in-time markers.

The distro build uses the CentOS_Buildtag as the lorax release
indicator. So for the release 1511 iso thats 20151209-2215

The only place this is used is in the media identity (
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/.discinfo ), it has no
bearing on the centos-release info or the release details embedded into
the installer.

> In this instance 7.2.1511 to match the distro. We can use the date
> format for rolling builds if needed, but without the date (to match the
> current yymm format).
> 
> The rest looks fine. The command I used for the initial AArch64 release
> is nearly identical to what Johnny listed.
> 


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