Re: Remove PACKAGES and PACKAGESRESCUE from upd-instroot

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Monday, July 27 2009, David Cantrell said:
> Based on notting's comment about removing the lib packages from PACKAGES, I
> thought we should be able to let upd-instroot do 'yum install anaconda' and
> get the tree we need.  So I looked at what yum install anaconda would pull
> in at first, then moved remaining things that are listed in KEEPFILE* lists
> to Requires: tags in the spec file.

This then means that one can't build a distro that doesn't have the
packages though.  And some of them (reiserfs stuff, xfs stuff, etc) we
have gone to some effort to ensure that if the tools drop out/aren't
there because a distro doesn't want to support those filesystems that
anaconda doesn't show them as "supported".

This could be an okay trade-off, but it's at least one that requires
some thought
 
Jeremy