Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread SpamHog
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread joseph lockhart
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Registered

package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread SpamHog
On my boxes I install a small Debian stable on its own partition for service and rescue purposes, an alternative to the many live-CD distros. I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network -

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Marcher
SpamHog wrote: Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel standard selection ~pstandard

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread SpamHog
On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little more), basic clients for

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread joseph lockhart
i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would just do a wget and a dpkg. As an alternative,