Fedora 18 RC1 Amazon EC2 images available for testing

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

On 01/07/2013 08:41 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Release engineering has built the latest F18 cloud image spin.
>
> In region US East,
>
>     ami-6145cc08 for 64-bit and
>     ami-0d44cd64 for 32-bit.
>
> Please take a look at this and help validate them for final release next
> week.
>

Hello,

I've took a look at these AMIs and made a comparison with F17. Here is 
the difference:

Newly introduced packages:
audit-libs-python, dbus-python, dmidecode, ebtables, gnutls, 
gobject-introspection, groff-base, iptables-services,json-c, kpartx, 
less, libcgroup, libdb4, libee, libestr, liblognorm, libmicrohttpd, 
libpipeline, libsemanage-python, libtasn1, man-db, nss-tools, 
openssl-libs, p11-kit, policycoreutils-python, procps-ng, 
pygobject3-base, pyliblzma, python-IPy, python-decorator, 
python-prettytable, python-slip, python-slip-dbus, qrencode-libs, rsync, 
setools-libs, systemd-libs, tar, tmpwatch

Missing packages:
ModemManager, NetworkManager, NetworkManager-glib, acl, acpid, attr, 
authconfig, avahi-autoipd, checkpolicy, db4, dnsmasq, fedora-logos, 
libdaemon, libdrm, libgudev1, libnl3, libpcap, libpciaccess, 
libsss_sudo, libudev, linux-firmware, m4, mingetty, 
mobile-broadband-provider-info, netxen-firmware, newt, newt-python, 
openssl, pciutils, pciutils-libs, plymouth, plymouth-core-libs, 
plymouth-scripts, polkit, ppp, procps, setserial, slang, 
system-config-firewall-base, system-config-firewall-tui, udev, 
wpa_supplicant

I'm concerned a bit about the absence of some basic tools: acl, attr, 
openssl. Shouldn't we include them by default?

The second issue is "hwcap 1 nosegneg" in 
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc6-xen.conf (it's not present in RHEL6 images, for 
example), but as I see there was a consensus that it should stay for now.

Everything else looks fine for me.

-- 
Vitaly