[CentOS-devel] Preliminary RHEL 8 review

Thu May 9 19:58:03 UTC 2019
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:54 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've noticed a few things that may help other people setting up test
> environments.
>
> 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.
>
> 2) For Virtualbox, it absolutely needs more than 1 GB of RAM.With only
> 1 GB, it hands during hte firstboot setups.
>
> 3) Mock is going to be.... awkward to port, due to multiple python
> dependencies in on the DVD.

Sorry, got interrupted. That should read "due to multiple python
dependencies for modules not found on the DVD.