Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 109778
kickstart adds packages that I didn't select for installation.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:33 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: I created a kickstart file from a manual installation. During the manual installation, I paid close attention to the packages I wanted installed and the ones that I didn't want installed. For instance, I did not select Gnome or KDE. During the installation, I noticed that it installed metacity (a Gnome package). I noted other packages that were installed when I didn't have them selected, too (SDL, Xaw3d, cdrdao, eel2, gphoto2, gstreamer*). The kickstart file was modified to allow for a NFS installation. On the system that I "built" the kickstart file from, I do the following: [root@wolfman 1]$ rpm -qa librsvg\* [root@wolfman 1]$ Nothing there. On the system I installed -from- the kickstart file, I do that and I get a hit: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa librsvg\* librsvg2-2.4.0-3 I check to see if maybe something needed that: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q --whatrequires librsvg2 no package requires librsvg2 I verified that the kickstart file I used to install from didn't have those packages selected, nor did it have Gnome (the group that should be selected for metacity to get installed). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform a manual installation 2. Grab the anaconda config file it leaves in /root. 3. Modify for NFS install 4. Perform the installation 5. Compare packages between the two systems. Actual Results: The packages on the system that I installed manually were different than the system that I performed the kickstart installation from. Expected Results: These two systems should have the identical set of RPMS installed. Additional info:
Can you attach the kickstart config you used?
Created attachment 95918 [details] Kickstart file used during installation. Jeremy, Here's the kickstart file I used during the installation. I grabbed a POS laptop from work to run the install again, but the display is all messed up. As soon as I can get a different one, I'll try it again to make sure I'm not smoking anything.
Should be better in newer releases.