On Friday, June 12, 2015 08:54:55 AM Stephen Gallagher wrote:
So yesterday a bug[1] showed up where someone installed Fedora
Server
on a laptop using the network install media over a WiFI connection and
after startup did not have the proper packages to use WiFI in the
installed system.
This was part of a conscious decision in the past that WiFI was not
commonly present on server hardware. That being said, do we want to
make it available as an optional comps group and include it on the DVD
media? This will likely increase the size of the DVD (though probably
not by much, since most of the required packages are already required
by Anaconda). I'm leaning towards yes, but the alternative would be to
somehow document the lack of WiFI out-of-the-box better.
just because anaconda requires the packages does not mean that the size will
not increase. anaconda's requirement means they get installed into the
filesystem for the anaconda runtime. you need to add the rpms into the package
set. I think it is fair and reasonable to include wifi support by default.
you have two choices I think. always install wifi support, or teach anaconda
to detect the presence of wifi hardware and install wifi support then
Dennis