FC4 kickstart broken?

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Mon Jun 27 17:05:17 UTC 2005


> 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!

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160209.  The
quick explanation is that we added support to exclude by architecture at
the last minute and broke the normal case.  A workaround would be to
append ".i386" or whatever to the names of the packages you want to
exclude.

- Chris




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