lamp_server pattern installation fails

[dsmith27]

Hi,

I had another go at suse studio this time starting with the Gnome base image. This at least boots into gnome (unlike server base image plus gnome pattern). However I'm experiencing a similar issue: I applied lamp_server pattern to my build, but it is not going on the built image.

Am I missing something here? Do I need to add the packages in lamp_server manually to my build? I think suse studio is a potentially great concept, but in my admittedly limited experience thus far, downloading bog standard release iso's may be less trouble.

Thanks

 

David Smith

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[James T.]

Hi David,

On 12/16/2011 03:31 PM, David Smith wrote:

I had another go at suse studio this time starting with the Gnome base image. This at least boots into gnome (unlike server base image plus gnome pattern). However I'm experiencing a similar issue: I applied lamp_server pattern to my build, but it is not going on the built image.

Am I missing something here? Do I need to add the packages in lamp_server manually to my build? I think suse studio is a potentially great concept, but in my admittedly limited experience thus far, downloading bog standard release iso's may be less trouble.

Sounds you've only included the package, but not the recommended packages. As mentioned previously, Studio only adds the included/required packages for each pattern by default in order to reduce the size of appliances (unlike YaST).

Hence you'll need to click on the "add all" button next to the recommended software section in the pattern pop-up (http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=188842).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
James T.

[dsmith27]

Hi James,

I was able to build a usable image earlier today, by guessing I needed the extra step of adding packages from the pattern pop-up. As with my comment on the gnome pattern, I expected that "lamp-server" pattern would add, at a minimum, include Apache, PHP and MySQL in the build with no intervention on my part, when in fact it appears to have added absolutely nothing to the build, until I clicked on the pop-up.

So there's "lamp_server" in the list of Selected software / Patterns: for my build, and I had the expectation that yes, I selected it, and it would therefore be going into my build. I think you need a little explanatory caption there. Another little glitch that occurred more than once, was when I clicked on both "recommended" and "suggested" in pattern popups, this caused package conflicts (at least this is handled a little more elegantly).

This is not to complain and criticize, but you would eliminate some noise on this list, not to mention quite a lot of wasted cpu cycles and bandwidth on your cloud infrastructure (e.g., I rebuilt and tested my image 6 times, before figuring out what I needed to do), by considering various possible user interpretations of your web presentation. It's nice and clean, and I appreciate that, but perhaps errs on the side of inscrutability :-)

Thanks again