FC5T2 ready for even a test release?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 22 01:47:43 UTC 2006
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:54 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
>
>>We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for
>>our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install".
>>Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This
>>script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the
>>machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc.
>>Fairly simple.
>>
>>Now without "An Everything Install" we install the default packages. This
>>will not install many packages from the base repository, for instance the
>>openoffice language packs or the xorg fonts. We need these because some
>>of our students will want to use their native language for some purposes.
>>Also some lecturer will always require some package that's not in the
>>default install but that he has on his machine. And in general they won't
>>tell you about this untill after the semester has started ;-(
>
>
> This problem is easily solved by writing a kickstart script with your
> required package set. Is it really that hard to identify what you need?
"everything" as a constant name, whereas it takes quite some effort for
user administrators to discover what the choices are, and those xml
files aren't that easy to read.
> If you're complaining about /var/cache space, what do you think will
> happen over time with all the updates for all those unnecessary packages
> you've installed with everything?
Aren't those easily cleaned after installation?
>
>
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Cheers
John
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