On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 12:46 +0200, dan1 wrote:
Hello.
I come back regarding my problem of the 'install everything' yum install command to upgrade from a 'server' install to a 'everything' install of CentOS 4, for the follow-up.
My DC technician told me to do the following:
yum grouplist
and then
yum groupinstall group_choosen
This seems quite a good thing. However, it lacks a 'distro_everything' group that would allow us to instal directly all packages of the distro. We must type each group manually and it's a pain. That would be a must. Maybe it is something to add to the yum functionnality ? Or else to make several top level groups that contain almost everything ?
Regards, Daniel
Daniel, Installing everything on a remote server is NOT a good idea. You are opening up your server to vulnerabilities and causing things to run in memory that you have no use for.
You are also putting every tool that a bad guy would need already on your server, so he can do just about anything he wants if he gets access.
It is, of course, your server ... so if you want to install everything, that is up to you.
There is no "install everything" option in yum groupinstall. The yum group features use the same comps.xml file as the anaconda installer, so we won't change it. (yum uses it differently ... and there is no "install everything")
If you haven't done any upgrades or added any software outside the distro, you might be able to use:
system-config-packages
(if you have run yum or up2date to update the system, system-config- packages will no longer work)