[CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

Wed Oct 3 18:25:07 UTC 2012
Ed Heron <Ed at Heron-ent.com>

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:29 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi Guys,
> 
> As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images
> consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private
> clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked
> out.
> 
> What / how many images should we build. At this time we were thinking of
> doing :
> 
> - CentOS-5 32bit minimal
> - CentOS-6 32bit minimal
> 
> - CentOS-5 64bit minimal
> - CentOS-6 64bit minimal
> 
> - CentOS-5 64bit LAMP
> - CentOS-6 64bit LAMP
> 
> What would be the minimal functional requirements people would expect
> from these images ? and what rpms should be installed ? Should root
> login be enabled or should we require people to go in via a 'centos'
> user. Should the image be self-updating, or should we have a post-login
> message that indicates outstanding updates ?

  Are you using existing RPMs or creating new ones with stripped
dependencies?

  What advantages will these images have over a kickstart install from a
local repo?