Poll: Customized Fedora

[Aaron Matteson]

Adam T. Gautier became daring and sent these 1.3K bytes,
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> >Sounds a lot like what kickstart already can do + extra packages and a
> >web frontend.
> >
> > 
> >
> Kickstart is a big part of the idea, if not only because of it's 
> importance in relation to Anaconda.  The web portion is to make package 
> resolution easier.  Which in my opinion is a pain in the but right now.  
> The web portion would span lots of third-party repositories.  That is 
> the reason it is web-based: I think this can only be solved in a 
> networked setting and a webapp is the fastest/easiest way to gurantee 
> that the system is in a networked environment with updated package 
> info.  Also, kickstart can add customization through scripting only (pre 
> and post scripts) which is fine but I also want to build a customized 
> Anaconda that is more modular and can have some pre-built functions 
> (Example: Configuration for apache that allows finer grained control of 
> the modules being initialized, sure you could edit the file in /etc but 
> if you are install 5-10 in a loadbalancing situation it becomes a 
> pain).  These customizations may best be addressed in the first boot 
> script or Anaconda, depends on the job.  Also, all of the additions to 
> Anaconda should be easily scriptable using kickstart.

What medium do you plan on using for this? generated ISO's would take
too long and the sheer possible number would bring the server to its
knee's and fill up space. The only real option i can think of is a
netinstall. As for your custom configuration files, how are you going to
pull that off? are you planning on rebuilding the packages with the
configuration files? or pulling them down seperately, later.

A customized Anaconda seems like a nice idea. An apache module would be
a nice touch, be sure to add its functionality to kickstart.

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