anaconda installing packages out of order (RHEL5.2)

[Brian Reichert <reichert numachi com>]

I'm tasked with building a custom kickstart ISO for Red Hat 5 update 2.

This is using

  anaconda-11.1.2.113-1
  anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.113-1

I've been successful for months, but today, ran into a weird symptom.

Our ISO boots, and installs our RPMs, but out of order, and does
not preserve the dependancies.  (_Mostly_ does, but some critical
misses.)

During the creation of the ISO, I direct the build to:

- copy our RPMs into the approriate directory for mkisofs

- generate a test RPM database, and from that, generate a list of installed
packages

    rpm --dbpath ${pkg_db_dir} -qa --queryformat='%{NAME}\n' >> all_packages.txt

- And I supply that text file in my ks.cfg file

    %include /mnt/source/all_packages.txt

- I create the on-disk repo:

     createrepo -p -q ${RPMBASE}

I observe:

- comparing the messages in /var/log/anaconda.log makes it seem
  that the packages 'seen' by anaconda are in the right order.  That
  is to say, this command:

    awk '/Adding/ {print $6}' /var/log/anaconda.log 

  yeilds a list that is in the same order as all_packages.txt from the ISO.

- but those lists are not the same order as anaconda installed:

    awk '/Installing/ {print $2}' /root/install.log

Some of those are out-of-order, and breakage occurs. :/

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to debug this?

I can provide logs (or snippets thereof), if that would help in the
diagnosis...

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