'everything' install option in FC5test1

[Jesse Keating]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 17:44 +0100, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> 
> Now, why cfengine appeared in Core (Rawhide) only for a brief period...
> when, as Seth pointed out, the much larger JOnAS was brought in without
> batting an eye. I'd argue that having cfengine in Core is a good idea.
> It can perform useful work at install time - without resorting to large
> kickstart scripts, which, by definition, are an one-off affair (you need
> to rely on something else to make changes after the installation).
> Having a bit of integration between cfengine and yum/anaconda would be
> even better - unless there are even more suitable alternatives.

When Anaconda can look at more repos than just Extras (think FC6)
wouldn't it make more sense to have your own yum repo with group
definitions for each system profile?  Then you can tell anaconda's yum
to group-install <foo>.  After the install, yum update will do the
updating work.

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