On 01/09/2014 07:19 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'd prefer:

download f21-xfce.img
download fedora-arm-bbb.img
write fedora-arm-bbb.img to same block device
partprobe
write f21-xfce.img to partition 3 of block device

because:

(a) the generic Fedora image just becomes a simple root filesystem
(ie. a direct ext4 image) so it's easy for end users to understand
what it is.  And (b) instead of shipping the Fedora image as a
filesystem image, we could consider shipping it as a tar.xz file,
which is useful for other cases such as containers and qemu user
emulation.

Yeah, going this way does provide a lot more flexibility, but at the cost of more room for user error (tar more so). You could even take it a step further and have /boot appear on the platform image (as opposed to OS), such that images could be reissued post-GA with new kernels that support a wider range of platforms. Also good for remixes.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / b...@redhat.com
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