| Summary: | Package Selection docs for @everything is incorrect | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Martin Poole <mpoole> |
| Component: | doc-Installation_Guide | Assignee: | Jack Reed <jreed> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | ecs-bugs |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | jreed, pbokoc, wburrows |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Documentation |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2011-12-09 01:13:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Martin Poole
2011-02-22 15:31:40 UTC
There is much more wrong with section 32.5 of the installation doc. Here is a list: 1) As stated above, there is no '@everything' group, so instead of stating: Warning — @Everything is not supported maybe it should read: Warning — @Everything is no longer included 2) The doc also covers using a (variant) after the @Conflict when using the @everything. "Packages known to cause such problems are assigned to the @Conflicts (variant) group, where variant is Server or Client. If you specify @Everything in a kickstart file, be sure to exclude @Conflicts (variant) or the installation will fail: @Everything (Server) -@Conflicts" The example given though shows the variant next to @everything instead of @conflict. Very confusing. 3) Is the '*' also not supported? Unlike the @everything group, the glob still pulls everything down. The glob is also not included in the BOLD font at the top as not being supported, but is mentioned below that: "You can use a kickstart file to install every available package by specifying @Everything or simply * in the %packages section. Red Hat does not support this type of installation." I realize this is just semantics, but is the '*' supported or not by Red Hat? When I have asked people involved in the anaconda engineering group this question, I was informed "@Everything" is deprecated in favor of the more generic glob mechanism, "*". " Can we please update the doc to give the user a straightforward answer as to what is and what is not supported. |