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Nir Magnezi 433a374748 Deprecate rhel7 in favor of rhel 
The rhel7 element is deprecated and is left only for backward
compatibility.
The rhel element should be used instead. Users should set DIB_RELEASE to
'7' to indicate which release you are using.

The new element is a version-less RHEL element to handle both '7'
and '8' DIB_RELEASE, which aligns with other elements which operate in
the same way such as the Fedora element.

Change-Id: Ic39ed85cacae9942448eb18ad685763f9369c2ed
2019-05-29 12:07:44 +00:00
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README.rst Deprecate rhel7 in favor of rhel 2019-05-29 12:07:44 +00:00

README.rst

rhel7

Warning

This element is deprecated and is left only for backward compatibility. Use the rhel element instead. Note that you should set DIB_RELEASE to 7 to indicate which release you are using. Please read the notes.

Use RHEL 7 cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.

Because RHEL 7 base images are not publicly available, it is necessary to first download the RHEL 7 cloud image from the Red Hat Customer Portal and pass the path to the resulting file to disk-image-create as the DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE environment variable.

The cloud image can be found at (login required): https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---7/7.1/x86_64/product-downloads

Then before running the image build, define DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE (replace the file name with the one downloaded, if it differs from the example):

export DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=rhel-guest-image-7.1-20150224.0.x86_64.qcow2

The downloaded file will then be used as the basis for any subsequent image builds.

For further details about building RHEL 7 images, see the rhel-common and redhat-common element README files.

Environment Variables

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE
Required

Yes

Default

None

Description

The RHEL 7 base image you have downloaded. See the element description above for more details.

Example

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=/tmp/rhel7-cloud.qcow2