On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Ed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: >> In the meantime, "%packages --nobase" in kickstart should solve your >> needs - if you're trying to install a large group of servers, you >> absolutely should be using kickstart. > > I, and likely everyone else on this thread, absolutely are using kickstart. > But to be honest, I haven't actually taken a serious look at --nobase. I > will. And sectool is a step in the right direction, though it sure doesn't > look like it will be ready for RHEL6 either.
While --nobase seems to come up a lot in this thread, and it is what I use, it isn't really anything all that special. Either you use --nobase and add a bunch of things we mostly find useful or you don't use --nobase and remove a bunch of things we mostly find not useful. What I think we want is something in between that comes closer to what is a widely used base server installation. Granted it is fuzzy - changing a couple packages is better than changing 60 or more no matter how you dice it. It would be very interesting to know how many people actually use bluetooth on their servers, or pcmcia, or cups, or on and on. John _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
