Are Minimal installs really better?
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Also even when you install something bigger, what you need isn't always there anyway.
I consider for instance
screento be a pretty basic tool. Not in Fedora Server.
nmap? Not in Fedora Server.
tcpdump? Yes, it was there.
iperf? No, not in Fedora Server.
smartctl? Yes, it was there.I think whatever you distro/installation options you pick, you are going to need to add stuff anyway. If that is part of the post-installation process then it's going to be there when you need it.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Also even when you install something bigger, what you need isn't always there anyway.
I consider for instance
screento be a pretty basic tool. Not in Fedora Server.
nmap? Not in Fedora Server.
tcpdump? Yes, it was there.
iperf? No, not in Fedora Server.
smartctl? Yes, it was there.I think whatever you distro/installation options you pick, you are going to need to add stuff anyway. If that is part of the post-installation process then it's going to be there when you need it.
The problem is that when you have many different admins that use different tools. You might use Nmap while some people just want to use netcat. If netcat isn't installed, I probably wouldn't even think to use Nmap just because Nmap isn't standard. Nmap will also trigger the hell out IDS systems
Every admin is going to install their own shit and they will be configuration drift. If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything. Sure you are going to want to install a few packages, but not the amount you will add with minimal.
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@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything.
The above stuff was from Fedora Server install, not minimal.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything.
The above stuff was from Fedora Server install, not minimal.
You left out my next sentence
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything. Sure you are going to want to install a few packages, but not the amount you will add with minimal.
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@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Every admin is going to install their own shit and they will be configuration drift.
That's a company standard problem, not an OS problem.
If a couple of guys doing admin work on the same machines sit down and think through what they use, you could probably come up with a comprehensive list that makes everyone happy. Post-install those packages are added on every machine.
On a regular basis you review the package list and add stuff or remove stuff and that becomes the new standard. Then push it out to all servers with automation.
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@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything.
The above stuff was from Fedora Server install, not minimal.
You left out my next sentence
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything. Sure you are going to want to install a few packages, but not the amount you will add with minimal.
OK, I get it now.
Well, if you think Fedora Server is closer to what you want in a minimal install I don't see a problem using that instead. And then adding whatever is missing.
You get stuff like cockpit too but maybe that is something you always want.
I don't know if fedora has a list of packages that are added for each installation option.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@IRJ said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything.
The above stuff was from Fedora Server install, not minimal.
You left out my next sentence
If you had the full sever install there is arguably enough tools to do everything. Sure you are going to want to install a few packages, but not the amount you will add with minimal.
OK, I get it now.
Well, if you think Fedora Server is closer to what you want in a minimal install I don't see a problem using that instead. And then adding whatever is missing.
You get stuff like cockpit too but maybe that is something you always want.
I don't know if fedora has a list of packages that are added for each installation option.
View group installs
dnf grouplistView packages within group installs
dnf groupinfo "Development Tools" -
Fedora Server adds this over Minimal Install (in Fedora 30)
I looked at:
dnf group list
and
dnf group info "<groupname>"Difference between Minimal Install and Fedora Server Edition:
It's not the whole truth though because some of these packages are installed in Minimal Install but they are listed as optional. I don't know when packages that are marked optional actually are installed or not. One example is the packages in the Standard group.
Common NetworkManager Submodules NetworkManager-bluetooth NetworkManager-wifi NetworkManager-wwan dhcp-client dnsmasq iptablesFedora Server product core PackageKit chrony polkit realmd timedatex NetworkManager-team dhcp-client fedora-release-serverHardware Support atmel-firmware b43-fwcutter b43-openfwwf ipw2100-firmware ipw2200-firmware iwl100-firmware iwl1000-firmware iwl105-firmware iwl135-firmware iwl2000-firmware iwl2030-firmware iwl3160-firmware iwl3945-firmware iwl4965-firmware iwl5000-firmware iwl5150-firmware iwl6000-firmware iwl6000g2a-firmware iwl6000g2b-firmware iwl6050-firmware iwl7260-firmware libertas-usb8388-firmware usb_modeswitch zd1211-firmwareHeadless Management PackageKit cockpit openssh-server cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-packagekit cockpit-selinux cockpit-storagedStandard abrt-cli acl at attr bash-completion bc bind-utils bridge-utils btrfs-progs bzip2 cifs-utils cpio crontabs cryptsetup cyrus-sasl-plain dbus deltarpm dos2unix dosfstools ed ethtool fedora-release-notes file fpaste fprintd-pam gnupg2 grubby hunspell iptstate irqbalance jwhois logrotate lsof mailcap man-pages mcelog mdadm microcode_ctl mlocate mtr nano net-tools nfs-utils nmap-ncat ntfs-3g ntfsprogs opensc pam_krb5 passwdqc pciutils pinfo plymouth psacct quota realmd rng-tools rsync rsyslog smartmontools sos sssd sudo symlinks systemd-udev tar tcpdump telnet time traceroute tree unzip usbutils util-linux-user vconfig wget which wireless-tools words zip -
@black3dynamite said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
I don't know if fedora has a list of packages that are added for each installation option.
View group installs
dnf grouplistView packages within group installs
dnf groupinfo "Development Tools"Thanks, I managed to figure that out.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Fedora Server adds this over Minimal Install (in Fedora 30)
I looked at:
dnf group list
and
dnf group info "<groupname>"Difference between Minimal Install and Fedora Server Edition:
It's not the whole truth though because some of these packages are installed in Minimal Install but they are listed as optional. I don't know when packages that are marked optional actually are installed or not. One example is the packages in the Standard group.
Common NetworkManager Submodules NetworkManager-bluetooth NetworkManager-wifi NetworkManager-wwan dhcp-client dnsmasq iptables Fedora Server product core PackageKit chrony polkit realmd timedatex NetworkManager-team dhcp-client fedora-release-server Hardware Support atmel-firmware b43-fwcutter b43-openfwwf ipw2100-firmware ipw2200-firmware iwl100-firmware iwl1000-firmware iwl105-firmware iwl135-firmware iwl2000-firmware iwl2030-firmware iwl3160-firmware iwl3945-firmware iwl4965-firmware iwl5000-firmware iwl5150-firmware iwl6000-firmware iwl6000g2a-firmware iwl6000g2b-firmware iwl6050-firmware iwl7260-firmware libertas-usb8388-firmware usb_modeswitch zd1211-firmware Headless Management PackageKit cockpit openssh-server cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-packagekit cockpit-selinux cockpit-storaged Standard abrt-cli acl at attr bash-completion bc bind-utils bridge-utils btrfs-progs bzip2 cifs-utils cpio crontabs cryptsetup cyrus-sasl-plain dbus deltarpm dos2unix dosfstools ed ethtool fedora-release-notes file fpaste fprintd-pam gnupg2 grubby hunspell iptstate irqbalance jwhois logrotate lsof mailcap man-pages mcelog mdadm microcode_ctl mlocate mtr nano net-tools nfs-utils nmap-ncat ntfs-3g ntfsprogs opensc pam_krb5 passwdqc pciutils pinfo plymouth psacct quota realmd rng-tools rsync rsyslog smartmontools sos sssd sudo symlinks systemd-udev tar tcpdump telnet time traceroute tree unzip usbutils util-linux-user vconfig wget which wireless-tools words zipI know if wanted to include the optional packages, I would use
--with-optional -
I know if wanted to include the optional packages, I would use
--with-optionalAhh, good to know.
Anyway if one wanted something between minimal and fedora server but without cockpit, bluetooth and such, you could install minimal and then run
dnf install @standardto get the packages from the standard group, which is most of the utilities.BTW, it took less than 30 seconds to download and install the standard package on my test system. It's many packages total but they are small.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
I know if wanted to include the optional packages, I would use
--with-optionalAhh, good to know.
Anyway if one wanted something between minimal and fedora server but without cockpit, bluetooth and such, you could install minimal and then run
dnf install @standardto get the packages from the standard group, which is most of the utilities.BTW, it took less than 30 seconds to download and install the standard package on my test system. It's many packages total but they are small.
And also can do this during the software selection screen too.
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Now there are some negative when installing standard groups. You end up having packages like these installed even though you are setting up a headless server.
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@black3dynamite said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Now there are some negative when installing standard groups. You end up having packages like these installed even though you are setting up a headless server.
Where was those? They were not in the standard group when I looked.
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@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@black3dynamite said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Now there are some negative when installing standard groups. You end up having packages like these installed even though you are setting up a headless server.
Where was those? They were not in the standard group when I looked.
Packages like those are dependencies and weak dependencies of the group/module packages.
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@black3dynamite said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@Pete-S said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
@black3dynamite said in Are Minimal installs really better?:
Now there are some negative when installing standard groups. You end up having packages like these installed even though you are setting up a headless server.
Where was those? They were not in the standard group when I looked.
Packages like those are dependencies and weak dependencies of the group/module packages.
Hmm, you're right. They get installed for sure.
I just did this.
These are all the packages that gets installed then installing the standard group on an 100% clean Fedora 30 Minimal install:
(exactly the same as what you get with the installer when you select minimal+standard)================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repo Size ================================================================================ Installing group/module packages: abrt-cli x86_64 2.12.2-1.fc30 updates 15 k bind-utils x86_64 32:9.11.9-1.fc30 updates 178 k btrfs-progs x86_64 5.1-1.fc30 updates 739 k cifs-utils x86_64 6.9-1.fc30 updates 88 k cryptsetup x86_64 2.2.0-1.fc30 updates 176 k ethtool x86_64 2:5.2-1.fc30 updates 151 k fprintd-pam x86_64 0.9.0-1.fc30 updates 17 k microcode_ctl x86_64 2:2.1-30.fc30 updates 1.9 M nano x86_64 4.2-2.fc30 updates 592 k nfs-utils x86_64 1:2.4.1-0.fc30 updates 404 k nmap-ncat x86_64 2:7.70-7.fc30 updates 210 k rng-tools x86_64 6.7-2.fc30 updates 53 k rsync x86_64 3.1.3-8.fc30 updates 397 k rsyslog x86_64 8.1907.0-1.fc30 updates 651 k sssd x86_64 2.2.0-3.fc30 updates 33 k usbutils x86_64 012-2.fc30 updates 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