Fedora Server Spin

Yanko Kaneti yaneti at declera.com
Sun Jan 14 10:42:29 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 00:13 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Sex, 2007-01-12 às 22:21 +0200, Yanko Kaneti escreveu:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:33 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > > I created an initial skeleton list of packages[1] for the Fedora Serevr
> > > spin [2]. The list was generated by looking at all the packages ('server
> > > packages') in current Core and Extras Rawhide that own a file
> > > in /etc/rc.d/init.d or /etc/init.d. 
> > 
> > > The list is a first attempt at getting a package list together and needs
> > > a lot more love from everybody; once this list is complete we'll look at
> > > adding supporting packages like system-config-* and sendmail-cf.
> > 
> > some essentials for a networked host.
> > 
> >   traceroute
> >   mtr
> >   bind-utils
> > 

> Wrong on all accounts. Definitely *not* essential, but sometimes useful.
> 
> Essential *maybe* on the CD iso, but not on default install.

I beg to differ. You know, when you've installed your slim install and
trying to get to the repos but you can't for some network reason. You
better have the tools to find what's going on.


Yanko




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