Re: [atomic-devel] please help us test atomic workstation/host images for f27

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 11/11/2017 07:00 PM, William Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 22:16 -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>> Atomic workstation is included in the normal fedora release process
>> and is part of RC 1.7:
>>
>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/27/Fedora-27-20171101.0/co
>> mpose/WorkstationOstree/x86_64/iso/Fedora-WorkstationOstree-ostree-
>> x86_64-27-1.2.iso
>>
>>
> 
> Hey mate,
> 
> I've found three issues so far:
> 
> 1) opensc should be part of the base image as it enables freeipa
> smartcard authentication and other related parts to work correctly (I'm
> layering it in for now )

you can open an issue/PR here: https://pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config/blob/master/f/fedora-ostree-workstation.json


> 
> 2) You can not rpm-ostree install vim:
> 
> Applying 68 overlays... error: Checking out vim-common-2:8.0.1187-
> 1.fc27.x86_64: Hardlinking
> c0/679f8a0eefe6ddb91b60afe7ff885aa8ee2b39fea8a0dbf342d7758733a7d8.file
> to ex.1.gz: File exists
> 
> I believe this is due to a duplicate file in vim-common and vim
> packages, but I'd like your insight to this

Yes you are right. I think this will actually be fixed in the first set
of updates provided after we do a release. Since you started with such an
early RC you'll need to update /etc/ostree/remotes.d/*.conf to have: 

url=https://dl.fedoraproject.org/ostree/27/

> 
> 3) I own a macbook pro, which means it has a broadcom wireless. This
> requires firmware that is non-free to be installed. Sadly, the install
> procedure is "extract some files to /lib/firmware"
> 
> Of course, this doesn't work on atomic because the base system is
> readonly. So what would be a good course of action here for firmware
> inclusion like this?  I can make an rpm for this at home I think, but
> would be great to have this use case sorted a bit. 

Does an rpm not exist for it anywhere? Does putting it in /usr/local/lib/firmware/ 
work?

> 
> 
> Hope that helps! Otherwise, it's going really well, install was
> painless, and I already have most of my applications working with
> flatpak :) 
> 
> Thanks for all the hardwork! 
> 
>