Re: Minimal systems

[Gary Thomas <gary mlbassoc com>]

James Laska wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Try ...
>
> %packages --nobase
> ...
> %end
>
> You'll likely end up with a useless system, so you'll need to manually 
> add in packages (or smaller comps groups) that you want installed.

No joy :-(  I just tried:

  %packages --nobase
  kernel
  -selinux-policy
  -selinux-policy-targeted
  %end

I *still* got both selinux-policy and selinux-policy-targeted
installed, even though they are explicitly excluded.  There
were also some 146 other packages... (is this truly minimal??)

I had this working with anaconda-11.4.0.21.  I'm now running 11.4.0.28.
I can't see anything that changed in the sources to account for this.

> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > I'm am trying to build the most minimal system possible.
> > My first attempt (via kickstart) lists these packages:
> >
> >   %packages
> >   @base
> >   -selinux-policy
> >   -selinux-policy-targeted
> >   -selinux-policy-mls
> >   %end
> >
> > Despite this, I *still* end up with selinux-policy and
> > selinux-policy-targeted installed.  Why?  Nothing that
> > was installed requires them, so how/why did they end up
> > in the list of packages?


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