On 06/01/2011 12:14 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Amit Saha (droidery(a)gmail.com) said:
>>> Seems like a generally reasonable idea. I'd suggest iterating with
>>> the SciTech SIG over what they'd like to see in a spin, if you
haven't
>>> already.
>>
>> Thanks for showing interest. Before I emailed Rel-eng, I had emailed the
>> the SciTech SIG list. Soon after, I saw on the mailman page that the
>> mailing list was de-activated. It would ofcourse be great to co-ordinate
>> with this SIG for this effort. Would there be a contact person?
Whoops,didn't know it was inactive. I'd suggest then posting to devel@;
there are plenty of people from the SciTech SIG page that are active there,
and they may have some ideas.
I am guessing you mean:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel ? Cool, I can
kick start a discussion there.
>>> With respect to the composition, I would suggest maybe seeing if you
>>> could frame it in terms of the groups we already have (engineeirng&
>>> scientific, development), more than in terms of just packages. For
>>> Fedora 16, we can certainly adjust the groups where necessary.
>>
>> Yes, that is what I initially intended to do. Let me check this up and
>> report my findings.
>
> At this point of time, it doesn't look like I can use any of the
> existing package groups to design the kickstart file (except the
> ones I include from -desktop.ks).
>
> Current packages in "Engineering and Scientific" group can be split
> into sub-groups: math, chemistry, physics, biology,
> geographic,distributed, parallel and generic packages. Quite
> exhaustive! (If such a sub-division sounds like a good idea, I can
> do that.)
>
> My goal in creating a Fedora Scientific spin is however to create a
> "base" level scientific spin which can be used by anyone working in
> research so that he/she already has the minimum writing, plotting,
> experimenting tools available when he/she starts. The current
> kickstart file can be seen at [1]. The ISO file stands at 1.2 G.
Would it be possible to make the mandatory packages in Eng&Scientific
your selected packages,and have the others listed as optional?
That sounds a great option, I think. The Eng&Scientific group could have
the mandatory sections with generic packages from my current kickstart
file and the more "specialized" packages currently in Eng&Scientific
could go into the optional section. (I am guessing these changes have to
be done in comps-f16.xml in the git repo.)
My current list of packages would then undergo a two-way split :
1. Mandatory science/engineering oriented generic packages like
texmaker,gnuplot,xfig..will just be included from @engineering and
scientific in my kickstart file.
2. Compilers/Interpreters/Programming language providing packages like
'gcc','clojure','R' go as individual packages in my kickstart
file
Best,
-Amit
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