Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 159611
Add additional packages missing from installer upgrade
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Hi All, I am using White Box Enterprise Linux 4 (WBEL 4). When I did my install, I selected all packages, except the development packages. I discovered that I could not rebuild a src rpm without it. So, I stuck the install CD back in and went into "Upgrade". After scanning my system, "Upgrade" told me nothing new to add and quit on me. So, to get the development packages, I had to use "New Install." Then, unclick everything except the development packages. This was a very, very dangerous way to get these packages installed. One and I really mean misstep and I would have screwed up my boot loader (GRUB), and/or screwed up my partition tables. I could have easily destroyed my entire business, which is installed on this computer (fortunately I have good back up). It is "insane" not to have an option to "add additional packages" as part of the installation upgrade routine. This is why I asm marking this bug as "High." Many thanks, --Tony Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot off disk 1 2. select upgrade 3. attempt to install additional packages Additional info:
I don't really want to approach this in this fashion. Instead, I want to make it so that it's more obvious what you don't have so you can find what you really want to have installed