Plan of Record for Fedora 22 Network Install Media

[Stephen Gallagher]

> On Jan 23, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> 
>> In Fedora 22, we will be producing four network install ISOs:
>> * Fedora Server
>> - Server branding
>> - Default environment group: Fedora Server
>> - Auto-partitioning defaults: LVM on XFS (except /boot)
>> - Responsible WG: Server WG
> 
> I got bitten by the fact that during install "Everything" is not
> available over the network. Eg I wanted to install packages not
> in the ISO image of the Server spin. I had expected since I did
> an install from the network, that once you got booted, there was
> no reason to withold any packages.


I'm guessing you did a boot of the Server DVD, not the server net install ISO. The latter supports Everything and always has. The DVD ISO only installs the frozen release-time packages and has to be updated after. 


> 
> I worked around it by running some yum install in %post, where it
> is available. So it's not urgent. I just wanted to convey my
> surprise. I expected a "net install" to have access to everything.
> 

Or you could have just added the Everything repo with the "repo" directive in the kickstart. 


> Paul
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