[Ovirt-devel] RFC: ovirt-node ISO

[Joey Boggs]

On 08/03/2011 06:45 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 06:04 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
>> As we prepare to push ovirt-node ISOs to ovirt.org while also working on
>> getting an ovirt-node spin into Fedora, there is some debate over
>> whether the version hosted on ovirt.org should use the minimizer
>> kickstart or not.
>>
>> Main argument for including the minimizer kickstart:
>>
>> Size.  We're currently looking at something around 130MB for the ISO
>> with minimizer and probably around double that without it (I don't have
>> one built currently without the minimizer so I don't have the actual
>> size).
>>
>> Main argument for not using the minimizer:
>>
>> Consistently with the fedora spin.  We can't use the minimizer in the
>> Fedora spins, so providing an ISO that matches the fedora spin would be
>> the same.
>>
>> Any votes or preferences on which we want to host?
> I vote for keeping blacklisting enabled in ovirt.org ISO for two reasons:
>
> 1. I'd like to push Fedora to change this policy over time.  But first
>     we just need to get the node into Fedora w/o blacklisting...
> 2. The RHEVH product uses blacklisting and I would rather that
>     blacklist only be enabled in the product since that reduces our
>     chances of catching errors elsewhere
>
> Perry
>
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Is there any reason we can't host both? Having the full version might 
not hurt to someone getting used to the project with the extra 
items(useful or not), and when they start to deploy to more machines 
over time would probably switch to the blacklisted one for space reasons 
esp if using pxe.