On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:32 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:24, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> What would be nice for kickstart files on iso's namely DVD iso is
> pre-defined installs for postfix mail server, sendmail mail server, mysql
> database server , postgresql server etc. Ones that install a
> predefined set of packages. but have the user set partitioning, root
> password etc.
Well, one could have different comps files used based upon which option you
select, so if you select a mailserver in anaconda, it would use the comps
file for that which has the right stuff mandatory/default. Something to
think about for say F8.
Why would you need different comps files ? Wouldn't it be enough to have
separate 'sendmail mailserver' and 'postfix mailserver' groups ?
In general, I am not convinced that basing this on tools that are mainly
meant for interactive use (like comps) is really all that useful in the
server world - what we want is something like kickstart, but with a
clean separation between the stuff that is site-independent (e.g. which
packages go on a postfix mailserver) and the stuff that is very site
dependent (storage setup, authentication, backup, ...)
For servers, you quickly get into questions that are more config mgmt
questions than install/provisioning questions. Either way, having a good
list of the most popular server setups and/or package lists for them
would be a very good start.
David