Quarterly Report 2023Q1 - CentOS Alternative Images SIG
This report covers what happened in our SIG between December 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023.
Purpose
Membership
No new members have been added this quarter. Membership can be requested by filing an issue on the SIG tracker or by asking during one of the regular IRC meetings.
Images
No non-scratch images have been created this quarter.
Health and Activity
We have finally gotten tags and targets on the CentOS Build System (CBS). This allows us to build images. There is still no way to get those images to mirrors and other places. So for the time being, all of our builds are scratch or test images.
Image Building Services
ImageBuilder
After investigation it was discovered that ImageBuilder would not work on CBS. After discussion the SIG decided to take ImageBuilder off our list of potential build services. One of the main reasons we wanted ImageBuilder was due to it's ability to create rpm-ostree images. We will look into creating those using kiwi.
Kiwi / LiveCD
We have been able to create test live images using Kiwi. Although the live images boot, the installer does install correctly yet.
Investigation has shown that kiwi should be able to make rpm-ostree images, but it will take some work. Currently, nobody has taken up the challenge to get it to work.
Issues for the Board
We have no issues to bring to the boards attention at this time.
Please have CentOS image with Budgie desktop environment. Thanks
The Budgie desktop environment is not in EPEL or RHEL, thus we are not able to create a CentOS image with the Budgie desktop enviroment.
The desktops currently available for CentOS are:
cinnamon
gnome
i3
icewm
lumina
mate
openbox
plasma (KDE)
xfce
We are starting with the major desktops first (Gnome and KDE). After that it will be determined by interest.
Thank you for sharing this report on the CentOS Alternative Images SIG. It's interesting to read about the progress and challenges the SIG has faced over the past quarter. I appreciate the transparency in sharing membership updates, as well as the current state of image building services like ImageBuilder and Kiwi. It's great to see that the live images are booting, although it's unfortunate that the installer isn't working correctly yet. I'm curious to know if there are any plans to address this in the near future. Overall, this report gives a good insight into the workings of the SIG and the progress being made towards achieving its purpose.