Server Spin

[David Huff]

One of the biggest areas of overlap between the server sig and thincrust 
is in a minimum package set definition that can be extended for 
different needs/applications.

Thincrust already includes an official Fedora spin, the AOS, which is 
hosted in the "spin kickstart pool"[1].   The AOS is basically a 
kickstart file describing a minimal appliance OS that includes: the 
kernel, yum, dns, grub, and se-linux, all working on start-up.

The first cut of the AOS was built by removing everything, ie. not 
including core or base, and adding the packages we needed.  We also 
tired to exclude extra packages that got brought in as deps. This 
produces an disk image of 140 packages and is ~360M.

While I am not saying this is the prettiest and/or the best approach, it 
was a quick way of producing a working appliance definition with a 
relatively small foot print using the current tools.

Ideally any "Server spin" would be extensions of this minimum OS 
definition.  I would love to see the the AOS definition evolve to become 
a better and smaller minimum OS definition.

I am in the process of defining the AOS requirements[2] for the F-11 
Spin and would love to get some feedback from the server sig.

I am looking for ideas/suggestion/opinions on what would be the best way 
of redefine the AOS into a smaller, more fine gained, minimum server 
definition.  Something that can be easily be extended by others?


-D


[1]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-aos.ks

[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin