From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: In previous versions of anaconda, when you chose to upgrade an existing RH installation, there was a checkbox that you would check if you wanted to "Customize Individual Packages". However, that is not in this version and I believe it should be continued. The CD is very useful if you need to re-install the kernel or the bootloader when disasters happen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0.93-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run anaconda 2.Choose to Upgrade Existing RH installation 3. Actual Results: There is no way to customize the packages to be upgraded. Expected Results: You should be able to choose individual packages to be upgraded as in previous versions of anaconda. Additional info:
anaconda will get you upgraded and then you can customize packages to your heart's content afterwards with redhat-config-packages or $package_tool_of_your_choice.
Sometimes I've used it as a tool to re-install a badly compiled kernel or bootloader. It has come in handy many a times. Why did you take that option out of the installer?
jeremy, for redhat-config-packages to work you need gnome. suppose I installed the system without X and now you want to install a desktop. (something common according to google) there is NO way a newbie can do it. (yum install gnome-desktop will not even pull X packages) (no, yum install gnome-session didn't work either) the easy way would be to boot doing an upgrade, customize packages, select gnome. now, I'm pretty sure you have a reason why you killed this option (which I don't know) but how about a compromise ?, how about if you enable this option if I booted with 'linux expert' ? (and yes, it happened to me, I had to install a desktop in a machine and had to do it the hard way, the very hard way with yum, lots of bandwidht and time lost, when the things I needed were on a CD)