[Fedora-livecd-list] Inheritance in kickstart and package removals

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I am working on a Xfce spin of Fedora available at 
>> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ksa which as you 
>> can see inherits the base desktop kickstart file which removes wget. I 
>> have been trying to add it back in my kickstart file but wget is not in 
>> the image created by livecd-creator. I have been able to reproduce this 
>> consistently.
>>
>> Seth Vidal on IRC commented that urlgrabber would serve the same purpose 
>> as wget and of course curl is also there but regardless of value of wget 
>> in the Xfce spin, this seems to be a bug that I can't add back packages 
>> that are removed in the base kickstart file I am inheriting from. Comments?
> 
> Excludes are processed second, so that's not really very surprising.
> I'm not sure if there's really a way from livecd-creator that we can do
> anything about it.  pykickstart could potentially handle it better --
> clumens isn't on this list, though, so filing a bug against pykickstart
> would be the best way there

Done.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427768

Rahul