http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724#c2 David Cassany changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mlin@suse.com Flags| |needinfo?(mlin@suse.com) --- Comment #2 from David Cassany --- @Max We are curious to know where are you using the kiwi-boot-descriptions within the 15.2 scope. `kiwi-boot-descriptions` provides custom initrds for KIWI images, this is a legacy feature we are keeping for backward compatibility, however current KIWI aims to fully embrace dracut initrds (for which this package is not needed). I am asking because we mostly have in mind SLE distros which last long term support and customers requiring old kiwi features when it comes about kiwi-boot-descriptions. So if we know were this package is being used in Leap scope this helps us to identify use cases that could be migrated to newer KIWI setups or also identify uses cases we did not properly consider when coding the current dracut modules. Could you give us some insights regarding how kiwi-boot-descriptions is being used? Do you have any image in OBS depending on that? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724#c4 --- Comment #4 from David Cassany ---

1) the first thing is kiwi-boot-descriptions had this Requires: %(echo `cat %{S:1}|grep %{_target_cpu}:%{distro}:|cut -f3- -d:`) in the specfile that is why we need to update kiwi-boot-packages

Ok, I see the issue here. We need to provide those boot descriptions for Leap 15.2 or either change this requirement if we decide to not provide it anymore.

2) I don't see those legacy packages be used on product since product-builder was introduced, but I can see several places those packages has pulled in Tumbleweed, live cd hav pulled kiwi-image-iso-requires; docker product build have pulled kiwi-image-docker-requires, Leap does not have docker product build atm, but live cd does(although not building yet in 15.2), so I suppose 15.2's live cd will also pulled kiwi-image-iso-requires.

btw in the prjconf, the prefernces below exists,

Substitute: kiwi-setup:image python3-kiwi createrepo_c Substitute: kiwi-image:tbz python3-kiwi Substitute: kiwi-image:docker python3-kiwi kiwi-image-docker-requires

Prefer: kiwi-filesystem-requires Prefer: kiwi-image-docker-requires Prefer: kiwi-image-iso-requires Prefer: kiwi-image-vmx-requires

Note that none of those is kiwi-boot-requires or kiwi-boot-descriptions. These two are the ones that are related to your issue, others are just fine and should not create any dependency issue in Leap 15.2. As far as I see it looks like there is no specific usage of kiwi-boot-requires in Leap 15.2, which is good. In terms of functionality this is for building PXE images of Leap 15.2, this type of images is discouraged as we believe there are better alternatives like PXE boot live images (isos) or deploy via PXE OEM images. On kiwi side we just need to agree if it is good choice or not dropping PXE image type support for Leap 15.2 images in Leap 15.2. In either case small update on the kiwi-boot-descriptions package is required. The discussion of the change is taking part around this PR: https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi-descriptions/pull/52 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724#c6 Max Lin changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(mlin@suse.com) | --- Comment #6 from Max Lin --- (In reply to David Cassany from comment #5)

Hi @Max,

Sorry if the question is dumb. I am wondering were I should submit the fix for this issue. Should it be directly to Leap:15.2 or should I commit the changes in SLE15-SP2 and this will eventually land in Leap:15.2?

Sorry this SPs and Leap minor releases relation ship is sometimes confusing me.

Thanks

AFAICS kiwi-boot-descriptions was maintaining in SLE still # iosc maintained kiwi-boot-descriptions SUSE:SLE-12-SP4:Update/kiwi-boot-descriptions SUSE:SLE-15:Update/kiwi-boot-descriptions therefore the change must to go to SLE first. Submit it to GA :Update or to SLE15-SP2 that is up to you as you're the maintainer, I guess SLE15-SP2 should be the better target than GA :Update :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145724#c9 David Cassany changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED --- Comment #9 from David Cassany --- Submission is done -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.