[Anaconda-devel] Re: partitioning, Everything ISO

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:34 AM Jiri Konecny <jkonecny(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > Dne 24. 01. 22 v 20:20 Neal Gompa napsal(a): > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:46 PM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de&gt; wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Am 24.01.2022 um 18:42 schrieb Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt;: > >>> > >>> cc: anaconda-devel@ > >>> > >>> From today's Fedora QA minutes > >>> https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2022-01-24/fedora-qa.202... > >>> > >>> 16:20:54 <pboy> I'll test that again, but I'm sure, if you use > >>> everything DVD you get the wrong preconfiguration. We had a thread > >>> about that on server list. > >>> > >>> I'm not finding this thread. But Adamw surely knows the history of > >>> Everything ISO better than I do. My fuzzy memory is that it's sort of > >>> a side effect of how images are made and it's kept around as a catch > >>> all. It's the only way to do a netinstall for any of the desktops. The > >>> default package set is for a minimal install, a.k.a. Fedora Custom. > >>> The idea is to make it straightforward to get a minimum bootable > >>> system and then use dnf to build it up from there. > >>> > >>> Just for context, "Everything ISO" e.g. > >>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-2022012... > >>> > >>> This image defines "automatic" partitioning as btrfs. It's intrinsic > >>> to the image itself what the partitioning defaults to. It's not a > >>> function of the package set, i.e. choosing the Server package set > >>> doesn't get you Server's default partitioning. It's a little > >>> confusing, but it's working as designed, insofar as it has one. > >>> > >>> I cc'd Anaconda folks, because I'm not sure exactly where the > >>> "autopart" kickstart command gets defined these days. And also whether > >>> it's worth the effort to make autopart variable based on what edition > >>> or spin is selected in the Everything netinstaller? I'm not sure that > >>> it is. > >> Chris, > >> > >> if I remember correctly, wasn’t it you who informed me (about a year ago in the context of F32/33) that booting from everything DVD and select „Fedora Server“ does not result in an identical installation as booting from Server DVD and selecting „Fedora Server“? (when I wondered about the installation on a rented remote hardware where only „Everything“ was available). > >> > > That's a different case. That's referring to the package collection. > > The Everything ISO has the base Fedora "profile" that most variants > > use (which uses Btrfs). But it also doesn't select Fedora Server by > > default and is explicitly designed "for experts", The Fedora Server > > netinstall ISO uses the Fedora Server "profile" and will use the > > Fedora Server settings by default, including using LVM+XFS. > > > > Think of the Everything ISO as something that an Arch convert would > > use, while the Fedora Server netinstall ISO would be something that a > > sysadmin doing server deployments from a central repo mirror would > > use. > > > Hi, > > Yes, it's as Neal said. Basically Anaconda is now using configuration > profiles which are matching the /etc/os-release values. > > https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/data/profile.d/fedora... > > If there is a match we will choose that configuration file. Not sure > what the Everything ISO has there. However, it's possible that it is > matching the base Fedora configuration file: > > https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/data/profile.d/fedora... > where you can find the default_scheme: > https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/data/profile.d/fedora... > Btw. the issue with changing profiles based on the packages selection was already discussed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002668 I still think that the best approach would be to extend the boot menu of the Everything ISO as mentioned at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002668#c1 The Anaconda profiles are documented here: https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration-files.h...