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About Pungi
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*Pungi* is a distribution compose tool.
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Composes are release snapshots that contain release deliverables such as:
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- installation trees
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- RPMs
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- repodata
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- comps
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- (bootable) ISOs
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- kickstart trees
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- anaconda images
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- images for PXE boot
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Tool overview
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*Pungi* consists of multiple separate executables backed by a common library.
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The main entry-point is the ``pungi-koji`` script. It loads the compose
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configuration and kicks off the process. Composing itself is done in phases.
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Each phase is responsible for generating some artifacts on disk and updating
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the ``compose`` object that is threaded through all the phases.
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*Pungi* itself does not actually do that much. Most of the actual work is
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delegated to separate executables. *Pungi* just makes sure that all the
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commands are invoked in the appropriate order and with correct arguments. It
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also moves the artifacts to correct locations.
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Links
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- Upstream GIT: https://pagure.io/pungi/
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- Issue tracker: https://pagure.io/pungi/issues
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- Questions can be asked on *#fedora-releng* IRC channel on FreeNode
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Origin of name
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The name *Pungi* comes from the instrument used to charm snakes. *Anaconda*
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being the software Pungi was manipulating, and anaconda being a snake, led to
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the referential naming.
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The first name, which was suggested by Seth Vidal, was *FIST*, *Fedora
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Installation <Something> Tool*. That name was quickly discarded and replaced
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with Pungi.
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There was also a bit of an inside joke that when said aloud, it could sound
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like punji, which is `a sharpened stick at the bottom of a
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trap <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_stick>`_. Kind of like software…
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