Reproduce the problem as follows: Install Red Hat 7.1, selecting these package groups: - networked workstation - dialup workstation - utilities Complete the install, and reboot. Confirm that Perl is present on the system. Use mkkickstart to produce a ks.cfg. Check the newly created ks.cfg, and perl is listed. Correct the partition entries in ks.cfg, delete reference to cdrom. Re-run install over NFS using this kickstart config, and everything goes as planned ... except that perl doesn't get installed. Good luck and thank you - David
Can you attach the kickstart file that mkkickstart made?
Below is a sample ks.cfg created from the install I described (except I had to go back and add mkkickstart, of course; I'd forgotten that). From here, I correct the partition entries, delete 'cdrom' (for this example, I've also munged the encrypted root passwd), and run it. Perl is listed here, but doesn't get installed. Thank you -d -------------------------- lang en_US network --bootproto dhcp cdrom device ethernet tulip keyboard "us" zerombr yes clearpart --linux part swap --size 119 install mouse generic --device null timezone --utc US/Central rootpw --iscrypted &verysecret& auth --useshadow lilo --location mbr %packages glibc-common mailcap redhat-release filesystem glibc termcap chkconfig db1 db3 dosfstools eject finger glib hdparm ksymoops losetup mailx mktemp bzip2 libstdc++ MAKEDEV mpage info diffutils fileutils findutils gettext ash gzip m4 man ncftp nkf bind-utils groff-perl popt procmail psmisc pwdb rdate ftp rootfiles rusers sed sendmail-cf shadow-utils nscd newt ntsysv slocate syslinux tar tcp_wrappers telnet mount lilo mouseconfig tmpwatch traceroute vim-common wget whois cracklib-dicts authconfig gpm passwd sh-utils freetype krbafs openldap nss_ldap pam_krb5 SysVinit XFree86-libs gnupg python alchemist rpm rhn_register util-linux apmd ipchains isdn4k-utils lokkit openssh-clients pidentd nfs-utils quota timeconfig anacron chkfontpath xtt-fonts ghostscript ypbind arpwatch dump iproute rsync shapecfg sudo mkkickstart ghostscript-fonts indexhtml redhat-logos setup basesystem statserial bdflush cracklib db2 dip e2fsprogs file gdbm gmp iputils libtermcap lrzsz mingetty bash hotplug groff modutils ncurses cpio ed at gawk grep dhcpcd less make minicom net-tools openssl perl pnm2ppa logrotate procps psutils raidtools readline rmt rsh rwho console-tools setserial dev slang kbdconfig setuptool sysklogd talk tcl tcsh textutils mkinitrd mkbootdisk time crontabs utempter vim-minimal which words pam cyrus-sasl kudzu ppp a2ps krb5-libs LPRng autofs openldap-clients sendmail wvdial zlib libpng 4Suite python-xmlrpc rpm-python up2date initscripts devfsd iptables kernel openssh pciutils portmap pump rp-pppoe vixie-cron XFree86-xfs urw-fonts VFlib2 printconf yp-tools bc efax lsof screen stat stunnel %post
I have the same issue. I can attach my ks.cfg file if required... Manually installing perl in post %section gets me round the issue but it's irritating... I also loose the tcsh and nkf packages. I found this out by doing rpm -qa and comapring the output against the package list in ks.cfg.
I'd like to report I have the same problem. I had a hand-picked list, but I ran into the same problem when I used mkkickstart. perl, perl-File-MMagic, and tcsh do not make it. This is after comparing and rpm -qa with the ks.cfg. I see an attachment link here, I'll drop the ks.cfg file in.
Created attachment 17906 [details] Here is my ks.cfg file
Fixed in the latest internal build. Thanks for your report.
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