This is easy to do since we already patched it for RHEL4 and it's in Fedora as well. It will, however, require pykickstart to be an approved component for the same release we plan to fix this in anaconda.
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Created attachment 310678 [details] anaconda part of the patch
Created attachment 310679 [details] pykickstart part of the patch
resovled with commit 8102cf1051e7c15ecca5c7bda13d54b94376f19a in pykickstart commit 209c19fd7229c57ad3352e4230c52605c66ff7bc in anaconda
On machine with 2 disks tested with: clearpart --all autopart ignoredisk --only-use=sda Previous data on sdb remained intact
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 therefore 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/RHBA-2009-0221.html