Fedora minimal install no tar tool?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Aug 7 15:12:47 UTC 2013


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote:
> > I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from 
> > DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no tar tool.
> > 
> > Was this change intentional? Thoughts?
> 
> Why do you say 'change'? From a quick look in comps, tar has never been
> in the 'minimal' group (which was called @base up until a few releases
> ago and is now called @core).

Formerly, it was pulled in by 'sos' in base/standard - it's now explicitly
listed there.

Bill



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