[Thincrust-devel] how to remove ACE?

[Bryan Kearney]

Marek Goldmann wrote:
> 
> On Aug 9, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Joey Boggs wrote:
> 
>> Marek Goldmann wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 9, 2009, at 3:24 AM, Joey Boggs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marek Goldmann wrote:
>>>>> I'm using appliance-creator to create appliances and want to 
>>>>> exclude ACE from list of packages to install. Is there a simple way 
>>>>> to remove ACE from appliance? I tried to add "-ace" to kickstart 
>>>>> file, but this hadn't helped.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I'm using libguestfs to remove ACE, but this isn't very 
>>>>> nice approach (takes time).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you using a custom kickstart file or the sample one provided by 
>>>> the appliance-tools package?
>>>
>>> I'm using a custom kickstart file.
>>>
>>> Example one: http://gist.github.com/164718 and base-pkgs.ks: 
>>> http://gist.github.com/164719
>>>
>> Your kickstart is trying to configure itself as if it was using ace. 
>> Based on the packages section you must have a dependency in one of 
>> them that's pulling in ace. Also is there any reason that it's 
>> configuring itself for ace in the kickstart if it's not being used on 
>> boot?
> 
> Ah, you're right!
> 
> front-end-appliance package had dependency to ACE.
> 
> Thank you for help!


Yeah.. ace is a standard package.. and appliance-creator should not need 
it at all.

-- bk