[CentOS-devel] Adding new Imagefactory features to CBS

Wed Jun 8 17:55:50 UTC 2016
Thomas Oulevey <thomas.oulevey at cern.ch>

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 ?

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.


-- 
Thomas