Fedora Minimal Core SIG -- please join if you're interested

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 09:45:25 UTC 2012


> > I wonder whether "Core" is a good word for Fedora Minimal
> > installation SIG. Because currently the minimal installation uses
> > @base yum group. @core group is included always, whether you want
> > it
> > or not. If you really want to have a_core_  system, you must use
> > kickstart like this:
> >
> > %packages --nobase %end
> 
> This isn't true anymore.
> 
> --nobase doesn't do anything because there is no @base.  It was
> renamed
> to @standard, and it's no longer selected by default in kickstart.
> 
> Also, the minimal install (GUI or TUI) does %packages \n %end as
> well,
> only @core gets installed.  So the result is the same as doing the
> kickstart.

Thanks for info. I reported a bug in anaconda to update the kickstart documentation:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875650

That means that "Minimal Core SIG" or "Core SIG" now makes even more sense :-)


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