On 08/07/2013 04:12 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Adam Williamson (awilliam(a)redhat.com) said:
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote:
>> I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from
>> DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no tar tool.
>>
>> Was this change intentional? Thoughts?
>
> Why do you say 'change'? From a quick look in comps, tar has never been
> in the 'minimal' group (which was called @base up until a few releases
> ago and is now called @core).
Formerly, it was pulled in by 'sos' in base/standard - it's now explicitly
listed there.
The sos spec file still lists tar as a dependency. This is actually
false now as we're using the python TarFile class instead.
Does this mean that sos is no longer in base/standard?
Regards,
Bryn.