Bug 1412398

Summary: Recommended packages are installed even if removed in kickstart
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Miro Hrončok <mhroncok>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 26CC: anaconda-maint-list, bcl, g.kaviyarasu, jkonecny, jonathan, mkolman, ngompa13, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:07:44 UTC Type: Bug
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flat-fedora-live-python-classroom.ks for the reproducer none

Description Miro Hrončok 2017-01-11 23:51:15 UTC
Created attachment 1239672 [details]
flat-fedora-live-python-classroom.ks for the reproducer

Situation:

python3-tox recommends couple of packages:

$ rpm -q --recommends python3-tox
pypy
pypy3
python26
python27
python33
python34
python35

I want to include python3-tox in kickstart but I don't want to include all of the recommended packages to save space.


So I have this in %packages:

python3-tox
-pypy
-python26
-python33
-python34
-python35


Nevertheless those are pulled in:
2017-01-11 23:39:19,828 INFO livemedia-creator: Installing pypy.x86_64 (703/1148)
2017-01-11 23:41:55,280 INFO livemedia-creator: Installing python26.x86_64 (1027/1148)
2017-01-11 23:41:55,280 INFO livemedia-creator: Installing python33.x86_64 (1028/1148)
2017-01-11 23:41:55,280 INFO livemedia-creator: Installing python34.x86_64 (1029/1148)
2017-01-11 23:41:55,284 INFO livemedia-creator: Installing python35.x86_64 (1064/1148)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
26.3-2.fc26
25.17-1.fc25

How reproducible:
In 25 and rawhide mock.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. livemedia-creator --make-iso --no-virt --ks /root/flat-fedora-live-python-classroom.ks --release 26


Actual results:
pypy, python26, python33, python34 and python35 are installed in the image

Expected results:
pypy, python26, python33, python34 and python35 are not installed in the image

Note that I was not able to create iso in rawhide mock due to bz1412391 but the log already revealed this.
Also the iso created in F25 mock contains those and they can be safely removed via dnf when the iso is booted (so they are not pulled in as a dependency of another package).

Attaching flat-fedora-live-python-classroom.ks

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:56:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2017-03-03 12:49:55 UTC
This is also an option in Koji.

See https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=23843

It contains python26 and others even when explicitly minused.

Comment 3 Miro Hrončok 2017-03-03 12:50:40 UTC
s/an option/an issue/

Comment 4 Neal Gompa 2017-06-26 03:47:33 UTC
The way to fix this is to make it so that packages not wanted are set as excluded from the DNF sack.

I've done this change in livecd-tools for this reason: https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools/commit/617e737474fb17da0e266422367e56ec54516bec

I ported this change to Anaconda (which is what actually does the real processing for lorax): https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/917

This is also the same solution that is used for other similar media creation tools (such as KIWI from SUSE, which the "ignore" tag for packages does the same thing).

Comment 5 Brian Lane 2017-07-10 20:20:30 UTC
This isn't something that lmc has any control over. It will need to be addressed by Anaconda.

Comment 6 Jiri Konecny 2018-01-03 10:09:27 UTC
PR: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/917

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