Re: [SLE] package installs, .sel files

Hi, Sometime back I posted on similar lines but as a problem I wanted the same package selection for all the machines I was building and when I saved the config file after first selection of packages, the next machine read the config file (YCP) for the Language selection, keyboard mapping, and the time zone selection, but the package selection I had to carry out all over again. Another thing was - if I used YaST it saved in a different format and YaST2 saved it in a different format - basically I couldn't duplicate the servers (same packages). It would really be great if we could have various ".sel" or ".ycp" files to build different servers/workstations. Would like to work on it and get it going!! Cheers, - Maneesh Bomb Ron Heron wrote:

Hello,

I think this is an excellent idea. At first, I wouldn't be a contributor, but one that could really use this. As others have noted, I completely stink at package selection! This would be a great way for people such as myself to get off to a good starting point, and being able to contribute later down the line.

Thanks, good idea, and I hope it goes through.

Ron --- "S.Toms" wrote:

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I was wondering if anyone thought of creating .sel files for the various types of installs and versions. Some sort of file archive of various types of installs for networks, workstations with X, workstations without X, routers, fileservers, mailservers, ftp servers, http servers, etc.. so that the .sel files only contain what is necessary to create the various types of systems I mentioned. I think that would be a meaningful project that many of us could contribute to, maybe have a seperate directory for each version in the ftp.suse.com server, ie:

ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.3/sel/ ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.4/sel/ ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/sel/

kinda like that. At one point I started doing something similar myself, following the SuSE dependencies. So I have various sel files for a samba/mail server, a firewall and workstations. But how valuable would somethng like this be to other SuSE users?? For those of you who don't know what the .sel files are, these are files that contain listings of all packages to be installed depending on the system you would like to have installed. Think back to when you first installed SuSE, you had the options for a KDE system, Gnome system, network system, base install, etc..

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