Producing different output formats for the same compose type

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Producing different output formats for the same compose type #1359

Open oglok opened 3 years ago

oglok commented 3 years ago

Proposing the following feature. OSbuild-composer should allow to generate different output formats from the same compose type. In our specific interest, we would need to generate images for RHEL4Edge/FedoraIoT with the following formats:

RAW disk image (preferred in a compressed format .xz)
QCOW2 (for virtualization platforms)
Public cloud formats (AWS/GCP/Azure/etc)

teg commented 3 years ago

This makes sense, and is what we do for the non-Edge image types. I think we should think of Edge and non-Edge as two flavours of RHEL, each of which should have one image type per target platform. Currently we don't have raw image support anywhere, but that's something we plan to add.