On Monday, September 09, 2013 07:28:43 AM Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> In the git-stage current Fedora template, the entire problem is embodied
> in the "download_fedora" function starting around line 201... The
> gotcha's are three commands around line 272 after we've identified and
> downloaded the initial release rpm. We have this:
>
> mkdir -p $INSTALL_ROOT/var/lib/rpm
> rpm --root $INSTALL_ROOT --initdb
> rpm --root $INSTALL_ROOT -ivh ${INSTALL_ROOT}/${RELEASE_RPM}
> $YUM install $PKG_LIST
>
> Ok... Those are running in the host local run time environment.
> Obviously, if the host does not have a (compatible) version of rpm
> and/or yum in the host local environment, you're screwed. That's the
> catch-22 situation and it's the same situation with zypper in the
> OpenSuse template. That short space of code has to be recreated in a
> totally distro-agnostic manner so it runs on any distro to create our
> initial rootfs. After that, we can do what ever distro (Fedora)
> specific commands we want by chrooting into the target container first
> (including rebuilding the rpm database to the target version). That's
> only even needed if you don't already have a cached rootfs for that
> distro and version.
Another approach could be to popularize the container downloads by the distro.
If each distro. could add a .tar.gz for a working container of a given
release, one could just download and configure them, no?
then the lxc project upstream, could just list those links or include them in
the a separate tool, that just downloads and untars the same?
That would completely sidestep the bootstrapping one-distro.-on-another
problem.
--
Regards
Shridhar
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