Is the globs(*) for package selection in kickstart documented
anywhere (yet)?
Sadly, no. However if you use @everything in your kickstart file, it
will still work and you'll get a deprecation warning in the log file.
This does need documentation. Thanks for reminding me - I'll work on
that today.
My question is, is that going to be as sufficiently smart as the
old/current-but-deprecated @everything, as far as silently dropping those
packages that have exclusional anti-dependencies? (picking the 'preferred
default')
This should have the same (or almost the same - not a yum expert)
behavior as if you did "yum install \*". That is, it should install all
packages in whatever repos are configured (currently just the media
you're installing from), minus anything that has dependancy problems.
Now, on to @minimal (dunno if that still exists). I used to generate
livecd's
from mandrake back when their @minimal yielded ~300MB. I was building
appliance livecd's that even stripped some more files, getting it compressed
down to 135M (fits on a 3" cdr, with X+windowmaker+mozilla+xmms). So @minimal
was very useful for me, and as I'm now trying to do the same sorts of things
with fedora, I would hope it still exists, though have been psyching up for
having to more or less do lots of manual deinstallations as I figure out what
packages aren't _really_ necessary (which I had to do anyway with the mandrake
@minimal, to _really_ shave the install size down). Of course, now my target
is looking more like a 3" 1.8G dvd, but still... I liked @minimal. a lot. I
hope it lives.
Well, there's @core and @base each of which installs some smallish
amount of stuff. It's actually more like 800 megs, which is a long way
from where you want to be. But we've had a problem with an ill-defined
minimal install for a while now so perhaps you are used to this. You
can just start with that and remove things you don't want.
- Chris