[CentOS-devel] Preliminary RHEL 8 review

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 17:10, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 15:54, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've noticed a few things that may help other people setting up test
>> environments.
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>> 1) The RPMs on the installation media are split into two distinct
>> repositories, "BaseOS" and "AppStream", for no reason I can discern.
>> This means that if you try, like me, to mount a DVD image and use it
>> as local yum repo for testing out kickstart setups and mock builds,
>> you need to address the multiple necessary repositories with the new
>> names.
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> So going from what was listed at Summit presentations:
>  BaseOS is going to be packages which will not be updated majorly during
> the lifetime of the release. Appstream is going to be packages which may
> get updated often during the release. Something like Slow, Fast, Modules
> would probably have been more intuitive for us gear-heads but for most tech
> support probably not.
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> As you say, you will need to update kickstarts to add an additional
> repository.
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>> 2) For Virtualbox, it absolutely needs more than 1 GB of RAM.With only
>> 1 GB, it hands during hte firstboot setups.
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> I believe the recommended minimum is now 2GB. It can probably be done in
> less if you know what you are doing.
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>> 3) Mock is going to be.... awkward to port, due to multiple python
>> dependencies in on the DVD.
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> Do you mean with using the system-python or using a python module?
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I believe for most compilations you need 1 more repository, Code Ready
Linux Builder which contains a lot of the items you are looking for. With
that enabled, you should be able to compile mock (at least my mockchain
does not complain about missing packages).


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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