Cloud web asset issues; was: Re: Short links to Fedora Cloud Images

2014-12-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Sandro "red" Mathys wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Matthew Miller > wrote: > > These links all work now: > > > > http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.x86_64.qcow2 ... > So, it seems no -21 short links exist (instead, one is redirected to > the down

Re: Location of Fedora cloud images

2014-06-24 Thread R P Herrold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > Latest Stable (i.e. currently Fedora 20): > > > http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.x86_64.qcow2 > > > http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-latest.i386.qcow2 Entering just the bare directory

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff, because it drastically increases the image build time for not much benefit, IMHO. One time image build cost vs. whatever bene

Fedora 18 RC1 Amazon EC2 images available for testing

2013-01-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:30:59PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: openssl is pulled in as a dependency if you install mod_ssl, which isn't there by default. In what other cases would it be useful to have it pre-installed? I consider openssl pretty b

future of Boxgrinder ... building cloud images

2012-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, David Busby wrote: I think you'll find it hard to get any traction here kickstarts especially in the "cloud front" are used increasingly less in favour of bootstrapping an instance with puppet / chef for provisioning above and beyond the base os. well known, but the non-i

future of Boxgrinder ... building cloud images

2012-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
in the IRC channel, I am advised by 'msavy' that Boxgrinder is on a path to end as a project, and transition into: http://imgfac.org/ which uses underneath: oz https://github.com/clalancette/oz Seemingly also, the former (and somewhat broken) appliance-creator goes away My go

yum-cron in the cloud images?

2012-12-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: Should we apply updates automatically in the cloud images? I like the idea of keeping people protected against security vulnerabilities. ... I would recommend against it, as you run the risk of breaking instances for people not living within the fou

Re: ec2 wiki page vs. get-fedora wiki page

2012-10-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:13:26PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: Another concern is that our threshold for wiki editing is low (as it should be in general), and it would be relatively easy to slip in a malicious change which might go unnoticed for a

Re: ec2 wiki page vs. get-fedora wiki page

2012-10-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: Another concern is that our threshold for wiki editing is low (as it should be in general), and it would be relatively easy to slip in a malicious change which might go unnoticed for a little while. isn't this what page 'watches' are for? -- Russ her

pciutils in minimal ec2 image

2012-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Bill Nottingham wrote: This is an explicit addition in the kickstart. Anyone recall *why*? (If it's important enough, it should just get shoved into core. If it's not important enough, it should just get dropped) no specific recollection, but almost certainly reflecti

Devil's Advocate, waqs: (prior item was untitled)

2012-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
However, I also can see, in the future, a "try Fedora desktop in the cloud" web page, with an big shiny launch button and automatic connection via noVNC. Here, there's plenty of sense in making it look as much like the desktop spin as possible, as that's the point. Let me play Devil's Advoc

Re: removing NetworkManager from cloud image?

2012-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
Sorry to self-reply, but I had three replies out of band, and wanted to surface the concerns / responses I received: On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, R P Herrold wrote: Times have changed, and certainly mindset needs to change given one is positioned in rich connectivity (a cloud) [and on to the

Re: removing NetworkManager from cloud image?

2012-10-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Robyn Bergeron wrote: And not to distract from that the above information or train of thought in general - I will casually mention that this is the type of thing that makes me think that starting to work with QA on a better (or perhaps "existent") set of criteria / testing p

Re: removing NetworkManager from cloud image?

2012-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, David Nalley wrote: F17 is not ready for automated deployment and hands off yum updates at the customer's sole management -- it hangs wayy too often. This is incredibly valuable feedback. If it's not overly proprietary information, I'd be fascinated to know what the relat

Re: removing NetworkManager from cloud image?

2012-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:17:14PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: It's basically the same, but we have a different use case than a _generic_ minimum install. I repeatedly hear that the base Fedora cloud image should contain as little as possible Times

OpenStack in EPEL

2011-09-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: > Quick show of hands: who cares about seeing OpenStack be in EPEL? > Now, before I go any further: who is with me? Is there pent-up user demand > for OpenStack on RHEL, or service providers who are loyal to the RHEL family > who would benefit