Bryn M. Reeves (bmr(a)redhat.com) said:
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?
It still is. Can check for yourself at:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/comps.git
It was just figured that 'tar' should be explicitly listed there.
Bill