On 01/03/2012 10:05 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 01/03/2012 03:46 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >>> 1. Can somebody suggest a way to select all packages while installing from DVD? >> you cant install everything from the DVD, since packages overlap and >> conflict with each other. a %post of yum --skip-broken install \*; might >> be your best bet. >> >> -- >> Karanbir Singh >> +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh >> ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax >> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > Thanks Karan, > > I will try to do that today. > You really do not want to install all packages. You should only install the packages you need to run the things you want to run. Installing all packages puts services on your machine, some of them listening on the default Ethernet interface. This greatly increases your security risk to the machine. For example, you have no reason to install an FTP server if you are not going to provide an FTP service. You do not need to install samba-server if you are not going to be on a windows network ,etc. There are also packages (usually named *-devel*) that are only required if you are compiling things on the machine. If you insist on install "ALL" then you are putting things on the machine, which may have security issues, that do absolutely nothing for you except give someone the ability to attack an unneeded service.
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