Nils Toedtmann wrote:
Great news! (Who is "upstream" - RedHat? Do they backport the nptl-patches from RHEL5?)
upstream is redhat.
Sure (i hope i know what you mean with "role"). Could be done by empty meta-packages like ubuntu's "{,k,x}ubuntu-desktop".
I like the approach that is taken with FC6 live CD's, they use some meta packages that pull in all dependencies for a "role".
Me too, it's the same approach as ubuntu's. It's more appropriate than the "groupinstall" method.
why is it more appropriate ? it sounds more of a kludge to achieve something with a package manager unable to support groups directly. Since yum can, we should use groupinstall and group/* to manage such stuff.
remember that group/* functionality need not only come from the core distro repo, its can be added via addon repo's as well.
I just supposed some officially released, polished sample-images running on as many VMMs and Host-OSes as possible. That could be done by a shell script of a few dozens lines or by calling virt-install with a nice kickstart.
Lets start with documenting the process ( hint: wiki ) and then we can take it from there, adding and providing the process guides might also come in handy for people.
- KB