Fedora Server Spin

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jan 12 15:45:53 UTC 2007


On Friday 12 January 2007 10:34, seth vidal wrote:
> okay this is insane. This is a server install. Let's have a single cd of
> almost nothing.
>
> A server install should be @Core, openssh-server, yum and that's pretty
> much it.
>
> Enough to get networking up and nothing else. After that the admin can
> install the components they need for the service the server will provide
> and be done with it.
>
> no apache
> no django
> no rails
> no tftpserver
> no anything
>
> ultra-clean - as servers should be. Then when you install a service
> package you can enable the service and you know that your server is
> setup properly: Only things you need are enabled.

While I totally see value in this, and this is the way I usually set things 
up, why couldn't the (stripped down) @core, openssh-server openssh-clients, 
yum, and maybe lftp or links or something to hit web pages be the default 
install if you just click next/next/next.  However having these packages on 
the CD and clickable at install time does add some value, you could pick at 
install time to just ask for apache and get what it needs, or just ask for 
mysql and get what it needs.  Having them on the CD doesn't mean that they 
will all be installed by default.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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