Re: [Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

2015-05-03 Thread Dan Callaghan
Excerpts from Nick Coghlan's message of 2015-05-04 15:33 +10:00: > One thing that did occur to me is that it's likely desirable to use > the > latest *released* version of the relevant family, rather than the latest > version available (since the latter might be a testing tree). Yes that's true,

Re: [Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

2015-05-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 05/04/2015 03:27 PM, Dan Callaghan wrote: > I think having some hardcoded rules in Beaker is fine, if someone wants > to use a different distro they can always construct a job explicitly > (using bkr machine-test or workflow-simple or any other way). Right, and when it comes to "What works be

Re: [Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

2015-05-03 Thread Dan Callaghan
Excerpts from Amit Saha's message of 2015-05-04 14:56 +10:00: > So, the key step is to figure out which distro to use. RHEL6/CentOS6 > would cover most > of the hardware, but there may be exceptions for older/newer hardware > archs. So, here is > what I am thinking: > > 1. Start with RHEL6/CentO

[Beaker-devel] Simplify inventorying systems in Beaker

2015-05-03 Thread Amit Saha
Hi all, As part of implementing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846185 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121462, I was thinking that the best user experience would be if we ask nothing of the user. They need to just click on a system's "Update Inventory" button or run