Add Beta/Pre Stable image without ZFS (ahead of Fedora 45)

[Danathar]

@inffy @renner0e I’d like to move my custom Aurora ZFS build to stable ahead of Fedora 45, but using the current stable would probably break the scripts I'm running on my container build.

Would it be possible for Aurora to publish stable image without ZFS now (beta test)? That would give custom ZFS builds a cleaner base image while still avoiding the faster moving latest stream.

I have not tested using the current stable image yet, but I suspect I could run into package conflicts because my container pulls in a newer ZFS version than the one used by Aurora’s akmods.

Or..and it just occurred to me..would you just recommend using latest but only building it from latest once a week or something?

Thanks!

[renner0e]

Sorry, but we will not be building more images and adding more complexity without a good reason.

We are going to change a few things regarding this in the future.

The only long-term sustainable way to have ZFS on Linux is to use older kernels, like the lts kernel that also happens to get published in ublue akmods, these do not support secureboot as they are built in copr by someone else and not in Fedora infrastructure unlike the rest.

[Danathar]

Sorry, but we will not be building more images and adding more complexity without a good reason.

We are going to change a few things regarding this in the future.

The only long-term sustainable way to have ZFS on Linux is to use older kernels, like the lts kernel that also happens to get published in ublue akmods, these do not support secureboot as they are built in copr by someone else and not in Fedora infrastructure unlike the rest.

No prob. That was really only the complicated version that I had running and I can wait until 45 comes out to do that one.

The simpler repo that I've got, which is based on yours I think will work just fine with the stable images.