Server Spin

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Jan 20 12:48:39 UTC 2009


David Huff píše v Po 19. 01. 2009 v 17:36 -0500:
> 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?
> 

There is work done by Daniel Mach on more precise inter-package
dependencies and on package vs. comps groups assignment. That should
remove the need for manual package excludes. Or at least some of them.


		Dan





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