A Vagrant box built to work directly on Anaconda.
- Vagrant
- A hypervisor (i.e. libvirt, hyper-v, virtualbox)
- vagrant-rsync-back
To use this, first ensure you have met the requirements described above. Then,
run vagrant up -- a CentOS 8 box will be provisioned & created for you.
Next, you need to initialize the Anaconda environment.
$ vagrant rsync-back
This command will pull the files found in /usr/share/anaconda into the
anaconda/ directory.
You should now be able to edit the Anaconda files and push them back to the VM with the following command:
$ vagrant rsync
Now, you should be able to run the following to start a Anaconda in headless
mode, which will make the installer available on VNC (vnc://localhost:5901).
$ vagrant ssh -c 'anaconda --vnc'
To upgrade to a new minor/major, or to utilize the content from another anaconda, simply extract the ISO's RPM or the RPM from Koji and re-symlink anaconda to the /usr/share/anaconda/ path inside. The python files are located in anaconda-core.rpm.
For example, you can use this to download the RPM and extract the contents:
curl https://kojidev.rockylinux.org/kojifiles/packages/anaconda/33.16.5.6/1.el8.rocky.1/x86_64/anaconda-core-33.16.5.6-1.el8.rocky.1.x86_64.rpm | rpm2cpio | cpio -D anaconda-src -id './usr/share/anaconda*'