On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:32 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:24, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
What would be nice for kickstart files on iso's namely DVD iso is pre-defined installs for postfix mail server, sendmail mail server, mysql database server , postgresql server etc. Ones that install a predefined set of packages. but have the user set partitioning, root password etc.
Well, one could have different comps files used based upon which option you select, so if you select a mailserver in anaconda, it would use the comps file for that which has the right stuff mandatory/default. Something to think about for say F8.
Why would you need different comps files ? Wouldn't it be enough to have separate 'sendmail mailserver' and 'postfix mailserver' groups ?
In general, I am not convinced that basing this on tools that are mainly meant for interactive use (like comps) is really all that useful in the server world - what we want is something like kickstart, but with a clean separation between the stuff that is site-independent (e.g. which packages go on a postfix mailserver) and the stuff that is very site dependent (storage setup, authentication, backup, ...)
For servers, you quickly get into questions that are more config mgmt questions than install/provisioning questions. Either way, having a good list of the most popular server setups and/or package lists for them would be a very good start.
David