[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/10/2008 11:47:33 PM: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Greg Swift wrote: > > What is a "base" (for lack of a bettter term) server? (RHEL is a server > > platform, after all) > > Personally I would define it as a system that has the underlying os, a > > method for managing it locally and remotely, a method for managing > > software, and security. > > By the way, if you put just this in kickstart you get exactly that: > > %packages --nobase --resolvedeps > openssh-server > yum-rhn-plugin > > Now, that pulls in about 800M of other packages because of the deps. > Perhaps you really want some statically compiled minimal version of > some of these (though you'd be hard pressed to do without python).
Once again, the requirement of a kickstart. I did just test this one. Just so you know, resolvedeps is deprecated. Fairly nice and clean from a package count, 158 x86_64 and noarch packages (there was also about 18 x86 packages before that I removed). And you are right.. almost exactly 800M. I browsed through the package list, can't really complain about whats there. Sad that the size is so big, but I've no resolution for that at the moment. > If it's a VM you might be able to do without openssh-server and use > only the functionality in RHN. I doubt it would really save you much, > though. In general I'm usually taking about standalones, but VMs are a great example of where this is useful. Unfortunately VMs tend to be a good place for using kickstarts. Actually I take that back. Since with a Virtual I can install and copy, not having to do a kickstart is very useful there as well. Thats what I don't understand. Why is there a perception that having a clean and small base server install from the leading Enterprise Linux vendor without a custom installation process via kickstart is such a bad concept? I'm done for now.. this is a tired discussion and I've yet to get hear a reasonable justification for whats wrong with wanting clean and small without a kickstart. And I'm sure i'm just being an annoyance at this point. My apologies. -greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
