[Libguestfs] question about support for almalinux or centOS stream images? [EXTERNAL]

[Barrette, Paul]

Hi Rich,
thanks for the confirmation.  I am looking into see how the cached images that are downloaded initially are made, e.g. $HOME/.cache/virt-builder/fedora-33.x86_64.2.  I would like build one so that I can test out alma linux.  Is this a dd image?  Looks like:

$ parted fedora-33.x86_64.2
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /home/pb/.cache/virt-builder/fedora-33.x86_64.2
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Disk /home/pb/.cache/virt-builder/fedora-33.x86_64.2: 6442MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  2097kB  1049kB                     bios_grub
 2      2097kB  1076MB  1074MB  xfs
 3      1076MB  6441MB  5366MB  xfs

thanks
Pb
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From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:51 PM
To: Barrette, Paul <Paul.Barrette at curtisswright.com>
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Subject: Re: question about support for almalinux or centOS stream images? [EXTERNAL]

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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 08:43:14PM +0000, Barrette, Paul wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been using libguestfs to generate centOS and fedora based 
> images.  Are there plans to support almalinux or CentOS stream?  Or if 
> there is a how to or doc that shows how to build a custom OS please let me know.

I'm not sure to what extent CentOS Stream will differ from RHEL in reality, but generally yes to both, although I'll probably wait a while to see if they have momentum.  It shouldn't be too hard, basically searching down all existing references to CentOS and Scientific Linux in the code and adding the new distro(s) alongside.
I don't expect any special support beyond that should be needed.

Rich.

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