Kickstart support info

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:46:59PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> As general feedback, ubuntu should have more tasks like RH does.

> At least one task should have sshd installed by default, along with all
> the regular server stuff.

We considered this when introducing (renaming, really) the server-mode
install, but there was a distinct lack of concrete proposals.  To me, a
server install should be minimal and conservative, and allow the admin to
add the necessary software for that system to fill its intended role.

There is essentially no additional software that I (personally) want
installed on _every_ server, except for ssh, and a task for a single package
doesn't make sense.  The base system provides a fairly rich set of server
administration tools.

Do you have specific suggestions in this area?

> For that matter, for stuff like postfix (not an ubuntu-desktop
> dependency), if I want exim4 by default do I have to let the installer put
> it, and then remove it myself and put exim or is there a way to seed
> negative packages compared to the default install?

We'll be skirting this issue for the next release by removing postfix from
the base install (which will allow the admin to choose any MTA easily, or
have none at all).

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 - mdz