On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 05:13:22 AM Peter Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Dennis Gilmore
<dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
> On Monday, January 18, 2016 04:57:27 AM Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My name is Justin and I mostly hang around with the Community Operations
>> (CommOps) team. I was hoping to follow up on an old discussion started at
>> the 2015-11-10 meeting about a minimal image being provided for Fedora.
>>
>>
>>
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/serversig/serversig.2015-11-10-16
>> .0
>> 2.log.html
>>
>> According to the logs, it appears that the consensus was to focus on the
>> server as its own platform, even if it was not the most minimal
>> installation possible. Another Fedora contributor started drafting an
>> article for this back in mid-November in the Fedora Community Blog, but
>> it
>> was never completed. I was hoping to do a little follow-up to see where
>> that discussion was now and if anyone could provide me with information
>> about if a minimal installation will be available in the future or if
>> things will just continue like they always have.
>>
>> It seems like this might still be a hot discussion topic, so if there
>> have
>> been any recent changes, I would like to publish an update about where
>> things are on the Community Blog. Hopefully someone can share some new
>> info
>> with me about this. Thanks!
>
> Not sure I have all the details or context here. But what would be
> different to the minimal dislk image we make for arm? Other than
> extending to x86 arches?
From my memory of the discussion it's more about marketing, IE what
ships with the Server label. In the minimal ARM image we use the
default fedora-release as opposed to a product specific one and also
all the standard defaults there like ext4 filesystems rather than XFS.
The sever arm image has fedora-release-server, cockpit, xfs etc and is a
minimal Fedora Server install, where the minimal image is a smaller install. I
guess the whole thing is very vague. We could do a fedora server vagrant
image, or minimal vagrant image, but the latter probably belongs more in the
base WG space than the Server WG space
Dennis