Bug 88400
| Summary: | De-selected package installed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | William WK Lee <i.am> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | mhoye |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-10-05 03:09:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
The RH9 installer doesn't seem to care much about what you actually choose, whether you're using text-only or graphical installers. I have unsuccessfully tried to get through the process without installing cups, sendmail and anything gnome-related, but the installer not only installs cups and sendmail anyway, but they're up and running after the first reboot. In install-related news, you can't actually uninstall them through the GUI at all. I'll add this here rather than file a new bug, as it may be related. I found this on severn Betas 1 and 2. I have not tested for it on RH 9. OpenOffice.org has three RPMs, of an average size of 35 MB. If you install the Office/Productivity group, you get all three. Fine. If you select Office/Productivity and then deselect OpenOffice.org, openoffice-i18n-1.0.2-4 and openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4 are installed anyway. They have no purpose other than to support openoffice-1.0.2-4, and can be removed immediately after installation: [root@issola root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1.6G 1.3G 235M 85% / /dev/hda2 98M 6.2M 87M 7% /boot none 34M 0 34M 0% /dev/shm [root@issola root]# rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep openoffice` [root@issola root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1.6G 1.1G 460M 71% / /dev/hda2 98M 6.2M 87M 7% /boot none 34M 0 34M 0% /dev/shm [root@issola root]# The problem is reproducable with kickstart files. The only workaround of which I am aware is to use a kickstart file and deselect all the packages you don't want. This error costs 225MB, which is significant on older machines, such as those used by non-profits, educational institutions, and in poorer countries where folks don't have a lot of money. This should be better in newer releases. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Red Hat Linux 9 Text Mode Installation Fault: I start the installation in text mode by specifying "linux text" at the boot prompt. At the package selection manual, I de-select Webserver, X Windows system and Gnome windows manager. However, all these are installed and a Xconfigurator is presented at the end of the installation! So poor in package management. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. At the boot prompt, type "linux text" 2. Follow the installation steps till selection of package 3. De-select webserver, X Windows system and Gnome 4. Let the installation complete. Actual Results: The de-selected items of Apache, XFree86, Gnome, etc. are installed. Expected Results: The de-selected packages should not be installed. Additional info: