From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: During the kickstart file generation, you can specify certain packages to install on the command line: e.g. ncurses Would force install of the ncurses library. The problem is there are often 32-bit versions of various items supplied by Redhat also, but it impossible to force installation of these. If you install openoffice, then it will install a lot of 32-bit dependicies though but that is a bit of a hack. What I'd like to suggest, is a format like what YUM uses. So if I do this in the kickstart file: ncurses ncurses.i386 The first line install for the current architecture, the 2nd will force install of the i386 version of the ncurses library. This is provided & supported by RH, so it isn't install unsupported packages. Is this possible? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install via kickstart. 2. Try to install 32-bit packages via kickstart. 3. Additional info:
Internal RFE bug #139918 entered; will be considered for future releases.
Re-assign to anaconda.
Backported on RHEL3 branch for U5
Cool! Are there any documents on this procedure?
The syntax is name.arch in the %packages section (eg, glibc.i386)
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-191.html