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?