Re: Rebuilding minimal install iso RHEL 4 (U1)

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:35:23AM -0400, Francis Swasey wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/6/05 11:27 AM, Ed Wilts wrote:
> >Basically a minimal install should be what you need to boot and run most
> >standard utilities and make it easy to select individual packages or
> >grouips on top of that via kickstart.
> 
> What are the "standard utilities" and who gets to pick them ???
> 
> I would think the default shell (bash), up2date, and networking is about 
> all that should be the DEFAULT minimum install... if I want more than 
> that, I can up2date it onto the box or take the time to learn kickstart, 
> so I can get the custom build I want and then who cares what the min 
> install is....

What I think you're missing is some of interactions between packages.
For example, without python, up2date won't work.  There may be shell
scripts in other minimal packages that require ash or csh. The problem
is we don't know what all the interactions are and they may not all be
there in the rpm specs as dependencies.

You have the power to build whatever configuration you want with
kickstart or pre- and post-installation scripts.

Red Hat picks the "standard utilities".  That's the distributor's job.
If you don't like the choices, you either customize what they give you
or find another distributor that ships the packages the way you want
them.  Alternatively, you may log a formal change request to outline
what you need and why and it may be considered for a future change.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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