[Thincrust-devel] Multiple appliances per image?

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Dec 16 16:16:53 UTC 2008


Bob McWhirter wrote:
>> That was the thinking. It would be trivial to allow it to handle more 
>> then one appliance, run it serially. Would that be the desired 
>> behaviour? Another solution would be to combine the puppet files into 
>> a single file.
>>
>> Do you have a preference? If not, I can knock out the former and let 
>> you give it a try.
> 
> Yah, serially would be a-okay.

Give this a whirl. If it works for you, I can push it upstream.

http://bkearney.fedorapeople.org/ace-0.0.4-1.fc10.noarch.rpm


> 
> Though, thinking I might still have to do some puppet combination, so 
> things like banners don't get trampled by the last recipe to run, since 
> it consumes $appliance_name:, etc.  Or do you think there's some way to 
> do a merge in the image itself to handle banners, the appliance-info 
> file, etc?

This would require either manual combination of the files (e.g put the 
real meat of the recipe into a class) or some automated combination with 
  conflict resolution.

> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     -Bob
> 
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