[CentOS-devel] Adding new Imagefactory features to CBS

Lalatendu Mohanty lmohanty at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 05:32:28 UTC 2016


On 06/08/2016 11:25 PM, Thomas Oulevey wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> On 08/06/16 17:36, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current version of Imagefactory [1] running with CentOS build system
>> (CBS) is few versions behind upstream releases of Imagefactory [1] .
>> Imagefactory recently added a new feature to build HyperV variant of
>> Vagrant image and also has capability to build Vagrant box for VMware
>> Fusion. I am confident that bringing these features to CBS will help the
>> community in general.
>
> Great news, thanks for the update.
>
>>
>> In case you are not aware about Imagefactory [1] , CBS uses it to do
>> Vagrant box builds for CentOS and other projects e.g. Atomic Developer
>> Bundle (ADB) in Atomic SIG.
>>
>> I am wondering how we can facilitate a process to bring upstream
>> features of Imagefactory to CBS. One suggestion from Ian was that we
>> should create a  cbs-test setup similar to production CBS setup and use
>> it to build confidence around the new features of Imagefactory and then
>> move the feature to production.
>
> We do have a test koji instance in dev-cloud, so we could use it. Is 
> grabbing latest from EPEL/Fedora a recent enough release ?

Nice. Ian has built the latest release [1] [2] for EPEL and Fedora. They 
are in epel7-testing now.

[1] Imagefactory : 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=771422
[2] imagefactory-plugins: 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=771425

>
> I'll rebuild Imagefactory in koji tomorrow and start the tests.
>
> We don't have a clear test set for upgrades, so I'll be happy to hear 
> from Ian or other on what should be tested.
>
>



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