In recent rawhide (rawhide-20060814/ppc was my test case), attempting to install all packages by placing '*' in the kickstart '%package' section does not install all packages. After installation, there are 306 packages on the system. The generated kickstart has the following in its %package section: @base @core cracklib-dicts rmt tzdata
We've got a patch to yum which has been submitted upstream, and we'll build a new yum with it today.