FC4 kickstart broken?

[Brandon Ooi]

Hi guys,

I was hoping to shed some light on FC4's kickstart (anaconda). Graphical 
installs work great but the Fedora team seems to be leaving the server 
guys behind.

My kickstart file is fairly basic. Because of our high-load server 
environment, we try to trim down our builds and remove things a server 
should never use (bluetooth, cups, wireless tools... etc...etc...). I 
usually do this in the %packages  section with --resolvedeps.

Simplified example:

%package --resolvedeps
@ editors
kernel-smp
gcc
libpng-devel
-bluez-utils          <== breakage occurs here
-bluez-hcidump

This kickstart file worked perfectly in FC3.  In FC4, when you try to 
actually remove a package the installer crashes with an "unhandled 
exception" telling me to report this as a bug. Something about a key 
error in kickstart.py?

If you comment out all the package removals, it "works." By works, i 
mean it seems to install all the packages, but the resulting 
anaconda-ks.cfg file in /root does not have anything meaningful in the 
%package section. It almost seems like package selection in the 
kickstart files is not supported anymore? I have not found a similar bug 
on bugzilla which makes me wonder if something changed and I'm not 
aware? if not I will file a bugzilla bug. Doing a graphical install of 
FC4 on all our machines would take forever!

Any help would be appreciated :)

Brandon Ooi