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. > -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc