Hi Glynn, Thanks for getting this out. Some comments below.
- Keith Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > Sue asked me to post some thoughts around a potential package list to > the list, and start a discussion about what we could have on the > interactive text install media. > > Assumptions/Caveats: > - SPARC/x86 have as close to the same package list. It didn't seem > useful to individually > list out packages as a proposal. > - The primary focus for the text based interactive install is server > oriented, and while > GUI apps can be installed afterwards, this certainly fills the gap > of not having a SPARC > based media install (given we don't have SPARC LiveCD) > - Resulting media needs to be re-distributable > - Have not done the analysis of space limitations (CD or DVD) to see > what will fit I don't think we need to limit to CD size for this. But I don't think we want to fill a DVD to the brim, either. > - Items marked with * are those that I'm unsure of. They'd almost > certainly the > first to go if there were space issues > - This is just a strawman for discussion. There will be very obvious > omissions that I > didn't think about. > > thanks, > > Glynn > > == > > Core > - Enough to get to basic console prompt > - ksh93, bash, zsh, tcsh, csh, ... > - awk, sed, gawk, gtar, less, more, rsync, screen, ssh(d), wget... > - dialog > - /usr/gnu/bin default > - Drivers > - All included unless reason not to (IB, iSCSI, FC, ...) > - Non graphical device driver utility? A non-graphical device driver tool is in the works and will definitely be included on the media (and by extension, on the installed system). > - Enough to get basics working out of the box > - ZFS, CIFS, COMSTAR > - IPS, BE > - Zones, Xen, LDOMs > - DTrace Toolkit > - Crossbow, IPMP, NWAM (off by default), DHCP server, DNS, NFS > - Volume Management, Suspend and resume (incl powertop, latencytop) > - Trusted > - CUPS > - Remove graphical desktop environment and utilities > - GNOME, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird > > Documentation > - Man pages > > Language Runtimes > - Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Fortran, C, C++, Erlang > > Locales > - Support same locales as with LiveCD > > Developer > - MDB > - GCC, GDB > - Non-graphical parts of SunStudio > - JDK * > - autoconf *, automake *, libtool *, m4 *, make, gettext *, (g)patch * > - emacs, vi(m), nano * > - ON *, Mercurial * I'm in favor of including mercurial on there. Perhaps others Subversion and/or other common version control tools as well? > > AMP > - Apache, Lighttpd, Squid, Memcached > - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite > - PHP, Rails > - GlassFish > - OpenDS > - Lynx > - Ant > > Deployment > - Automated Install > - Distro Constructor AI and DC definitely belong! Polishing this image off and streamlining it for running as an AI server, distro builder, and IPS repo/mirror seem like worthy goals as well, though I'm not exactly sure what that would entail. > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
