[Libosinfo] Script broken for Fedora net ISO

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

No one has a better idea?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Vladimir Benes recently told me about the issue of express
> installation and net ISOs of Fedora in Boxes. There are two issues
> with this:
>
> 1. Internet is required w/o script communicating this requirement to App.
> 2. Some remote repositories need to be setup, otherwise installer
> waits for user to manually set them up.
>
> I thought of some solutions but none without any issues:
>
> 1. a. Add 'needs-internet' to media entries
>     b. Pass media info to script generation functions.
>     c. Modify fedora script to add required repos if 'needs-internet'
>
>     This would be my first choice but how can we implement (b) w/o breaking API.
>
> 2. a. Add 'internet-available' param to InstallConfig
>     b. Modify fedora script to add required repos if 'internet-available'
>
>     This would add to the work of App as they'll have to check
> availability of internet and set this. FWIW this won't be an issue for
> Boxes at least as it already checks that to ensure scripts requiring
> internet have it available. Perhaps we can assume that for other apps
> too?
>
> 3. a. script templates specify variants supported
>     b. Add variant info to net ISOs
>     c. We add separate scripts for netiso variants
>
>     The main/first issue with this would be the fact that volume IDs
> on ISOs are the same for both full and net installer ISOs. AFAIK this
> is true for all distros, not just Fedora.
>
> Better ideas welcome!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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