Am 22.03.2023 um 12:59 schrieb mkolman(a)redhat.com: Hi! Recently we have been looking at this bug, currently reported on Anaconda: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178508 "missing packages:nvme-cli during the installation of Fedora 38 Server Beta" In short, what happens is that starting with Blivet (the storage library used by the Anaconda installer) 3.7.0 the nvme-cli tool will be proposed for installation when NVME hardware is detected at installation time. This effectively boils down to the nvme-cli package being added to the installation RPM transaction. This works correctly on netinst images, as the nvme-cli package is available from the Fedora online repositories. But it fails on the F38 Server DVD image, as nvme-cli is *not* present in the on-media repositories. My question is - how are the DVD image repositories defined ? How can the nvme-cli package be added to them ?

Am 23.03.2023 um 13:17 schrieb mkolman(a)redhat.com: On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 16:15 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > >> Am 22.03.2023 um 12:59 schrieb mkolman(a)redhat.com: >> >> Hi! >> >> Recently we have been looking at this bug, currently reported on >> Anaconda: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178508 >> >> "missing packages:nvme-cli during the installation of Fedora 38 Server >> Beta" >> >> In short, what happens is that starting with Blivet (the storage >> library used by the Anaconda installer) 3.7.0 the nvme-cli tool will be >> proposed for installation when NVME hardware is detected at >> installation time. >> >> This effectively boils down to the nvme-cli package being added to the >> installation RPM transaction. >> >> This works correctly on netinst images, as the nvme-cli package is >> available from the Fedora online repositories. But it fails on the F38 >> Server DVD image, as nvme-cli is *not* present in the on-media >> repositories. >> >> My question is - how are the DVD image repositories defined ? How can >> the nvme-cli package be added to them ? > > > As Stephen Smoogen already noted, the DVD as well as the net install pull in packages as defined in the comps files as he noted. > > If the net install includes the file but the DVD not, then the cause is most likely a dependency issue. DVD and NET installation handle dependencies differently. Net installation includes all types of dependencies, but DVD installation does not. If I remember correctly, weak dependencies are not taken into account. See https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/32 In this case the dependency is dynamically generated at runtime - if Blivet find the right NVME hardware on the target system, it will request the nvme-cli package to be installed. For this to work, the nvme-cli package needs to be present on the DVD image repos. So to fully solve this issue, I think we will have to somehow hardwire the package to be included in the DVD repos, as regular "static" dependencies are not directly in play here.

> > It is best to ask Stephen Gallagher of Server WG. He also solved a similar problem with Cockpit previously at the time in minutes, without causing collateral damage (as others did, unfortunately). I'll put him into CC. > > > > > > -- > Peter Boy > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy > pboy(a)fedoraproject.org > > Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) > > > Fedora Server Edition Working Group member > Fedora docs team contributor > Java developer and enthusiast > _______________________________________________