Drop Photon support #1048
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Booting a systemd-nspawn container with a Photon image produced by mkosi without --netdev waits for 2 minutes until "wait for network to come online" times out. After logging in there's 3 failed services in systemctl status. This is without trying to use any of mkosi's more advanced features. Bootable images are not supported at all on Photon. Given this and the broken container support, it's clear that Photon support isn't really usable at the moment and probably hasn't been for quite a while (see systemd#664). Given that Photon has been broken for multiple releases and that aside form systemd#664, no one has bothered to report concrete issues or make an attempt to fix the issues aside from a mirror update, this gives us a pretty clear indication that no one is using or trying to use mkosi to build Photon images. Given that none of the existing maintainers are familiar with Photon (and are likely not interested in doing the effort needed to support it), let's drop the Photon support from mkosi.
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Booting a systemd-nspawn container with a Photon image produced by
mkosi without --netdev waits for 2 minutes until "wait for network
to come online" times out. After logging in there's 3 failed services
in systemctl status. This is without trying to use any of mkosi's
more advanced features.
Bootable images are not supported at all on Photon. Given this and
the broken container support, it's clear that Photon support isn't
really usable at the moment and probably hasn't been for quite a
while (see #664).
Given that Photon has been broken for multiple releases and that
aside form #664, no one has bothered to report concrete issues or
make an attempt to fix the issues aside from a mirror update, this
gives us a pretty clear indication that no one is using or trying
to use mkosi to build Photon images.
Given that none of the existing maintainers are familiar with Photon
(and are likely not interested in doing the effort needed to support
it), let's drop the Photon support from mkosi.