Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 10:37 -0700, Shabazian, Chip wrote: >> Be aware however, that this usually results in a system that is >> unusable. You need to build back up from @base in order to get a good >> build. I have no idea what these packages might be for FC5. > > %packages --nobase > @Core > > will give you a system that is usable, but has no yum, no lftp, no man > pages, no a lot of stuff. You do get rpm, and thus python so thats > good. It is usable, just difficult to add to it from there. I've been working on this today, and this post scratch my itch nicely! I use this: %packages --nobase --resolvedeps @Core yum openssh-server openssh-clients # list of other packages here This way I can add only just those packages I need and don't get all the other cruft that comes with the standard install and isn't needed on servers. Now, if I could only work out how to set LANG to en_GB.UTF-8 on installation ... R.
