WTF? Inaccessible bug reports?
Terje Rosten
terje.rosten at ntnu.no
Wed Nov 21 20:55:18 UTC 2007
* Olivier Galibert
|
| Keep cranking up the pain, guys, and fedora will definitively makes
| its place in the "master of none" category.
|
| It's kinda sad that people who do such a good job upstream end up
| building such a crappier-over-time distribution from it.
Hi Olivier, imho Fedora 8 is most easy Fedora to install and customize,
however you *have* to work with the tools, not against them.
Using DVD install and
$ yum install \*
are not to working with the tools.
Why is Fedora 8 install easy?
* lots to packages (almost all "normal" pkgs are included)
* easy to create homemade repos (createrepo)
* very simple to create custom comps.xml (createrepo -g)
* support for additional repos in kickstart (url keyword)
- can add updates, freshrpms and custom repo during install
* much faster depsolver code (thansk yum people!)
* very good hardware auto detection
Old, however very nice features:
* http support in kickstart, this is a killer! [1]
What could be better?
* bug free installer :-)
* installable Everything spin (without isos, will be fixed in F-9, I hope)
- Terje
[1]: Combine apache with mod_rewrite with e.g. php to create kickstart
files *on the fly*:
Boot host with boot.iso (or from grub) go to text modus and write:
linux ks=http://webserver/ks/<hostname>
This URL is a redirect to http://webserver/ks/ks.php?hostname=<hostname>
the php script has all needed information about <hostname>: network
settings, auth info, passwd, packages, additional repos etc.
Now add cfengine or similar to do post install configuration you should
be set.
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