Vagrant build fails due to mirror 404 about stacki

[caladd]

Looks like the mirror location moved on us. We have an internally cached version of the ISO so I don't catch it when it moves. I'll try to find the new URL tomorrow and update the tool.

Also note: When using iso-builder, you don't need to run it in a Stacki machine. You can run it from any machine that has vagrant and Virtualbox on it. I do it all the time from my Mac.

[patricksavill]

@caladd I'm using virtual box currently :) I installed the 5.4 release into it and that worked well.

@bsanders no worries, I'll keep an eye on Stacki in the future but will look at other deployment options for now.

[wayne-arcleviti]

Downloading from this mirror seems much faster:
http://mirror1.es.uci.edu/centos/7.6.1810/isos/x86_64/

[caladd]

Looks like the new location is at: https://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/7.6.1810/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1810.iso

You should be able to download the ISO into the root of the iso-builder folder and the VM should be able to find it.

[patricksavill]

Thank you caladd for the quick response.
Looks like a slow download from my end (estimate is 2 days to download) but I'll start pulling it now and shall start the build again.

[caladd]

Yah, it is a huge file. I think we have code in the works to use a remote repo instead of having to download a 10GB ISO just to get the could hundred packages you actually need.

[bsanders]

@patricksavill

also, if you're not interested in building it from scratch, that particular build was uploaded to s3:

https://teradata-stacki.s3.amazonaws.com/release/stacki/5.x/stacki-5.6rc1-redhat7.x86_64.disk1.iso

Either way you'll still need the CentOS iso to actually install stacki. You might be able to find a faster mirror or grab it on a torrent.

Also worth noting (since you referenced it) stackios is currently broken. It's been a month or two so I don't exactly recall how/why at the moment. Do you usually use stackios?

[patricksavill]

Currently using Stacki os is the simplest route for me, putting it into a VM and installting from the iso image.
Just exploring options to deploy backends of OpenSuSE Leap 15.2

My original issue of building from source with the mirror has been solved. Placing the new everything mirror is in ../tools/iso-builder fixed that.

@bsanders on the breaking of the stackios I observe a failure with it too.
Using that release candidate build the installation stalls on

Starting installer, one moment....
usage anacoda.real [usage help for anacoda]

anaconda.real: error: argument --repo: expected one argument

[caladd]

@patricksavill Which VM software are you using? We have images for Virtualbox and libvirt that will boot straight into an installer.

[bsanders]

Just exploring options to deploy backends of OpenSuSE Leap 15.2

Unfortunately, OpenSuSE isn't supported at the moment. There is some work done to support it in the codebase but I had to set it aside unfinished. I can take a look at where it currently is, but I'm not sure when I'd be able to pick it back up.

[bsanders]

I merged in the PR that pointed to kernel.org. I doubt UCI is going away any time soon, but it seemed better to point there instead. If you have the ISO already in the correct location, you won't even hit the mirror. I'd be interested to see a PR that let you specify the CentOS download mirror somehow (adding another environment variable to iso-builder, perhaps).