Miles O'Neal wrote:
Jon Peatfield said...
|If you just want to add extra packages for the install then you can do
|that just creating an extra 'yum repo' and pointing the sl5 installer at
|it in addition to the standard ones.
|
|Then either with kickstart or a semi-manual install you get to see the
|extra rpms in all the repos you have listed - and you can specify your own
|groupings if you care to write a suitable comps xml file...
|
|Any other customisations can be done by a script (for kickstart) or extra
|packages containing the magic (if you want to support manual installs).
|
|I guess if you want to make custom ISOs you need to arrange to either add
|the extra repo into existing ones, ship an extra ISO of your repo or just
|point them at a network accessible version.
|
|Keeping your own repo(s) of extra packages is handy for doing yum updates
|from later anyway so you probably need that anyway.
|
|What else do 'sites' offer?
That's fine until you start using a different version of
a package than the vendor uses. Maybe there's a way around
that in yum; I haven't really figured yum out yet. Is there
a *good* doc on yum out there that explains such things?
Where are the equivalent documents for SL{3,4}? I'm not sure I
understand the question, and "site" is awfully vague.
_I_ don't like adding different versions of packages than the vendor
provides as it instantly increases the maintenance burden; RH does a
fairly good job of maintaining the packages it offers, and the cloners
such as SL mostly do a good job of tracking that maintenance and of
maintaining their own additions.
As soon as one uses a different version of a package, to a greater or
lesser extent that support is negated.
Generally, and depending on budgetary and support requirements, I would
choose amongst RHEL, a RHEL clone and Fedora, or the equivalent other
distros.
Where I require a wide range of prepackaged software, I tend to use
Debian (but it's a long time since that happened on my desktop, and with
the advent of support for virtualisation that has become less likely).
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John
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