[DIB][diskimage-builder] Rocky Linux image build method

Pierre Riteau pierre at stackhpc.com
Mon Aug 1 08:21:18 UTC 2022


Hello,

I am curious about the choice of providing only a rocky-container element
in DIB, which works differently to the centos element, which uses cloud
images.

It makes it hard to produce working images for VMs or bare metal, as
various packages that would normally be installed are missing, such as
cloud-utils-growpart or openssh-server. See the kickstarts for reference
[1] [2].

It seems to also occasionally cause complex failures such as the one that
rendered Rocky Linux 8 images unbootable last week [3]. I am guessing this
wouldn't have happened had the build been from a cloud image.

Would the DIB community be open to also have a rocky element using
GenericCloud images, like centos?

Thanks,
Pierre Riteau (priteau)

[1]
https://git.rockylinux.org/rocky/kickstarts/-/blob/r8/Rocky-8-Container-Base.ks
[2]
https://git.rockylinux.org/rocky/kickstarts/-/blob/r8/Rocky-8-GenericCloud.ks
[3] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/diskimage-builder/+/851687
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