On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:58:19PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/30/22 13:52, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:56:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 09/30/22 11:46, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > >>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:33:02AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hmm, here's an interesting stackoverflow posting ... > >>>> > >>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301023/gtk-spinner-not-appearing > >>>> > >>>> The first point is "Make sure librsvg is installed". librsvg is _not_ > >>>> installed in the ISO. Laszlo, can you try building an ISO with this > >>>> package explicitly added to the deps? > >>> > >>> Yes, that could be it. The widget is rendered using CSS and the > >>> Adwaita CSS rule references "process-working-symbolic" as the > >>> icon, and that icon is only shipped in SVG format AFAICT. > > > > snip > > > >> I'm of the opinion that we should just get rid of metacity altogether, > >> and use icewm. I don't know why metacity is not working, but I consider > >> metacity a seriously substandard WM anyway, so let's just get rid of it? > > > > Note, icewm doesn't exist in RHEL, only EPEL. > > Correct, but I don't see that as a problem, considering that the last > time we've officially "released" a p2v ISO, that was in the RHEL-7.6 (I > think) timeframe, the infrastructure needed for building the ISO even on > that major RHEL release does not exist any longer, and the only interim > solution we have right now is me building the binary on my workstation > and the ISO in a dedicated Fedora VM. For RHEL-9.2, it's theoretically > possible that the Image Builder service can accommodate our needs, but > then we're going to use custom repos anyway. > > (I've just finished the commit message for the replacement, and yes I > mentioned EPEL9 there.)
I think unfortunately this is going to be a problem - we can't really depend on EPEL packages for supported RHEL products. Can we make the WM optional? ie. Change the default but keep the possibility of still using metacity around. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
