[Fedora-spins] Server spin

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 16 01:34:59 UTC 2010


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > Do you think it's appropriate to keep it this way or should I change it?
> > The reason why I do it this way is, that pungi doesn't pull optional 
> > comps packages in the media kit. Any idea how to work this around 
> > without having an extra script?
> 
> To date, all spins have been either live media, or a virt image that is
> quite similar.  However you mention using pungi, which means you're
> making a more traditional install media, as opposed to live media.
> Basically you're just adjusting what packages are or are not on the DVD
> media we generate as part of a Fedora release?

... I'm confused why you'd do this as well. How many people install their
servers from *media*? (That being said, it would be interesting to
benchmark an image-based installation of @core, but given that anaconda
won't run on that...)

Bill


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