[Fedora-spins] Server spin

Daniel Mach dmach at redhat.com
Fri Nov 12 16:36:57 UTC 2010


Dne 12.11.2010 16:44, seth vidal napsal(a):
> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:14 +0100, Daniel Mach wrote:
>> Hello,
>> we'd like to start Server spin.
>> I've already created a spin page[1] and I'd appreciate any feedback from
>> Spins SIG.
>>
>> The spin doesn't exactly follow the rules, since we use a script to
>> generate the kickstart file[2].
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I think the last time this came up there was the following question:
>
> What is a server spin if NOT a simple kickstart of minimal?
>
> I don't mean this sarcastically at all - I just don't know what is being
> shown off in a server spin that you can't get from a network ks of
> fedora minimal.
>
> -sv
>
You can say this about any spin.

I see additional value in this spin - there will be something to test, 
we can watch deps more easily so we can ask for package splits and have 
generally better control over server packages in Fedora.

- daniel


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