> Is the globs(*) for package selection in kickstart documented anywhere (yet)? Sadly, no. However if you use @everything in your kickstart file, it will still work and you'll get a deprecation warning in the log file. This does need documentation. Thanks for reminding me - I'll work on that today. > My question is, is that going to be as sufficiently smart as the > old/current-but-deprecated @everything, as far as silently dropping those > packages that have exclusional anti-dependencies? (picking the 'preferred > default') This should have the same (or almost the same - not a yum expert) behavior as if you did "yum install \*". That is, it should install all packages in whatever repos are configured (currently just the media you're installing from), minus anything that has dependancy problems. > Now, on to @minimal (dunno if that still exists). I used to generate livecd's > from mandrake back when their @minimal yielded ~300MB. I was building > appliance livecd's that even stripped some more files, getting it compressed > down to 135M (fits on a 3" cdr, with X+windowmaker+mozilla+xmms). So @minimal > was very useful for me, and as I'm now trying to do the same sorts of things > with fedora, I would hope it still exists, though have been psyching up for > having to more or less do lots of manual deinstallations as I figure out what > packages aren't _really_ necessary (which I had to do anyway with the mandrake > @minimal, to _really_ shave the install size down). Of course, now my target > is looking more like a 3" 1.8G dvd, but still... I liked @minimal. a lot. I > hope it lives. Well, there's @core and @base each of which installs some smallish amount of stuff. It's actually more like 800 megs, which is a long way from where you want to be. But we've had a problem with an ill-defined minimal install for a while now so perhaps you are used to this. You can just start with that and remove things you don't want. - Chris -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
