starting Fedora Server SIG

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, James Antill wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:46 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>>> How do you define/configure a "good default course"?
>>>>
>>>>  I've recently posted a patch to the yum ML which would allow Fedora (or
>>>> any active repo.) to configure these choices manually. We could then
>>>> also easily have different defaults for the desktop vs. the server
>>>> spins.
>>>
>>> Where would you store per-spin defaults, as they all point to the
>>> same repo?
>
> Ahh, I didn't think the spins did that (they are just different sets of
> default packages then?) ... atm. that wouldn't be trivial to work
> around, but it could be done by providing a repo. just for the extra
> repometadata ... or we could change the proposed metadata syntax to
> solve this?

Curiously enough you could make a fedora spin repodata now with 
mergerepo and then modifyrepo to add the spin-specific comps and 
provider-selection metadata all pointing back to 'everything' for the 
actual packages.

-sv