Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

[John Florian]

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 12:35 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, John Florian 
> wrote:


On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 05:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

Hi,

FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Python 3 version of the
livecd-tools:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/livecd-creator/



This is interesting news for me.  I'm a long time user (in an employed
capacity) of livecd-tools and it sort of felt like the project was circling
the drain.  I've recently started playing with livemedia-creator and have
found some aspects that look wonderfully powerful (e.g., the lorax
templates) but have also found it frustrating to use when it doesn't like my
kickstart.  I'm past that frustration (for now), but have hit another bump.
To make the spins from lm-c into what I need, I must modify the lorax
templates and since our spins are done in our Koji there doesn't yet appear
to be anyway to achieve that.




In order to use alternative templates, the livemedia-creator command
must have an additional parameter passed. Koji currently doesn't
support this facility, which makes it difficult to use when you need
to support custom layouts. If you'd like this capability, file a bug
against koji in bugzilla for it.


Done.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394933

I'm willing to try tackling this.  I code Python lots and have read plenty of 
Koji (to understand how to use it before the excellent 
https://docs.pagure.org/koji came along ... or maybe that's been around for 
awhile and I just never stumbled onto it working only with "better than 
nothing" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji).  If that's acceptable, should 
this be planned on buildsys or koji-devel first or should I just go for it and 
show my work as a patch on the RFE I submitted or ... ?





So I'm at a crossroad of enhancing Koji to support custom lorax templates or
to maybe hold out for this breath of life in livecd-tools.  Are you planning
to get this work into the livecd-tools in the standard Fedora repos?  What
about Koji support?  Would this work as is or will that require further
work?




Kevin has already submitted a request to merge our work into the
canonical livecd-tools repository[1]. Once merged, we hope that
upstream will push a new release to supported releases with the new
code.

Cool beans!


 The work we did shouldn't affect Koji support any, though if you
run Koji on something other than Fedora, you'll need to have the
latest DNF 1.1 version available on the system running Koji. With the
release of RHEL 7.3 and EPEL7 subsequently bumping up to it, the
version of DNF for EL7 can be bumped to the latest 1.1 release. Please
request that in bugzilla, if you want it.

I'm currently not providing EL7 packages because of the lack of DNF
1.1. With no CentOS 7.3 available yet, I cannot produce packages that
would be installable by the vast majority of people.


Will do.  I'll probably wait until CentOS 7.3 is out.  Unfortunately I don't 
have any proper RHEL to play with.  Then that always puts my brain in a spin as 
to where I *should* file such requests, CentOS BZ, RH BZ, github, etc.  I feel 
wrong (and have been told so for other rpms) in filing in RH BZ when I expect 
to use it in CentOS, but if RH *is* upstream like with lorax, then anywhere 
else seems wrong.



[1]: https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/pull/37



I'm just trying to gauge where to focus my efforts project-wise.  Hopefully
I can contribute something here.



I would encourage you to try out our new livecd-tools and see how it
performs for your needs. Contributions are welcome as well. If
upstream doesn't pull it in, the code will be maintained on Kevin's
GitHub repository[2].

[2]: https://github.com/kkofler/livecd-tools


I will do that. It's always an immense relief for me to see things moving to 
Python 3 -- I jumped ship long ago, and of course, now I want everything else 
to do the same.  Even if I do wind up using livemedia-creator eventually for 
composing the ISO, I'll still be using copy-iso-to-disk from livecd-tools for 
some time to come for the persistent storage support.  I'll be more than happy 
to help test.  Hopefully I can also contribute something as well, which is much 
more likely with Py3 code because it doesn't burn my eyes like Py2 does.  [:-)] 
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Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, John Florian  wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 05:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Python 3 version of the
> livecd-tools:
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/livecd-creator/
>
>
>
> This is interesting news for me.  I'm a long time user (in an employed
> capacity) of livecd-tools and it sort of felt like the project was circling
> the drain.  I've recently started playing with livemedia-creator and have
> found some aspects that look wonderfully powerful (e.g., the lorax
> templates) but have also found it frustrating to use when it doesn't like my
> kickstart.  I'm past that frustration (for now), but have hit another bump.
> To make the spins from lm-c into what I need, I must modify the lorax
> templates and since our spins are done in our Koji there doesn't yet appear
> to be anyway to achieve that.
>

In order to use alternative templates, the livemedia-creator command
must have an additional parameter passed. Koji currently doesn't
support this facility, which makes it difficult to use when you need
to support custom layouts. If you'd like this capability, file a bug
against koji in bugzilla for it.

> So I'm at a crossroad of enhancing Koji to support custom lorax templates or
> to maybe hold out for this breath of life in livecd-tools.  Are you planning
> to get this work into the livecd-tools in the standard Fedora repos?  What
> about Koji support?  Would this work as is or will that require further
> work?
>

Kevin has already submitted a request to merge our work into the
canonical livecd-tools repository[1]. Once merged, we hope that
upstream will push a new release to supported releases with the new
code. The work we did shouldn't affect Koji support any, though if you
run Koji on something other than Fedora, you'll need to have the
latest DNF 1.1 version available on the system running Koji. With the
release of RHEL 7.3 and EPEL7 subsequently bumping up to it, the
version of DNF for EL7 can be bumped to the latest 1.1 release. Please
request that in bugzilla, if you want it.

I'm currently not providing EL7 packages because of the lack of DNF
1.1. With no CentOS 7.3 available yet, I cannot produce packages that
would be installable by the vast majority of people.

[1]: https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/pull/37

> I'm just trying to gauge where to focus my efforts project-wise.  Hopefully
> I can contribute something here.

I would encourage you to try out our new livecd-tools and see how it
performs for your needs. Contributions are welcome as well. If
upstream doesn't pull it in, the code will be maintained on Kevin's
GitHub repository[2].

[2]: https://github.com/kkofler/livecd-tools


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Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

[John Florian]

On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 05:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

Hi,

FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Python 3 version of the
livecd-tools:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/livecd-creator/




This is interesting news for me.  I'm a long time user (in an employed 
capacity) of livecd-tools and it sort of felt like the project was circling the 
drain.  I've recently started playing with livemedia-creator and have found 
some aspects that look wonderfully powerful (e.g., the lorax templates) but 
have also found it frustrating to use when it doesn't like my kickstart.  I'm 
past that frustration (for now), but have hit another bump.  To make the spins 
from lm-c into what I need, I must modify the lorax templates and since our 
spins are done in our Koji there doesn't yet appear to be anyway to achieve 
that.

So I'm at a crossroad of enhancing Koji to support custom lorax templates or to 
maybe hold out for this breath of life in livecd-tools.  Are you planning to 
get this work into the livecd-tools in the standard Fedora repos?  What about 
Koji support?  Would this work as is or will that require further work?

I'm just trying to gauge where to focus my efforts project-wise.  Hopefully I 
can contribute something here.
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Re: Announcement: Python 3 port of livecd-creator (was: Re: Announcement: DNF port of livecd-creator)

[Kevin Kofler]

Hi,

FYI, Neal Gompa has now put up a Copr with the DNF + Python 3 version of the 
livecd-tools:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/livecd-creator/

Enjoy,
Kevin Kofler
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