FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[John Summerfied]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:54 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
> 
>>We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for 
>>our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install". 
>>Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This 
>>script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the 
>>machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc. 
>>Fairly simple.
>>
>>Now without "An Everything Install" we install the default packages. This 
>>will not install many packages from the base repository, for instance the 
>>openoffice language packs or the xorg fonts. We need these because some 
>>of our students will want to use their native language for some purposes. 
>>Also some lecturer will always require some package that's not in the 
>>default install but that he has on his machine. And in general they won't 
>>tell you about this untill after the semester has started ;-( 
> 
> 
> This problem is easily solved by writing a kickstart script with your
> required package set.  Is it really that hard to identify what you need?

"everything" as a constant name, whereas it takes quite some effort for 
user administrators to discover what the choices are, and those xml 
files aren't that easy to read.


> If you're complaining about /var/cache space, what do you think will
> happen over time with all the updates for all those unnecessary packages
> you've installed with everything?

Aren't those easily cleaned after installation?


> 
> 


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