From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: When you use a kickstart file with additional yum repositories added to it with the repo command (as described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart), the excludepkgs option is not used by anaconda. The excludepkgs option is also omitted from the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file after a kickstart install. It could be that I'm just being daft :-) , but if I look at the anaconda source I can't see any evidence that the repo options "excludepkgs", "includepkgs" and "priority" as specified in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart actually exist as valid options. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11.4.0.82 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a kickstart file and add an additional yum repository and specify some packages to be excluded. For example: repo --name=Update --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/ --excludepkgs=kernel 2. Perform a kickstart install with anaconda with the kickstart file just created. Actual Results: The kernel package from the update repo is used. Expected Results: I would expect that the kernel package from the update repo is not used and that the kernel package from another repo is used. Additional info:
Oops, that's because --excludepkgs and --includepkgs was only ever added for distribution build tools. The next build of anaconda should support this, though I have not yet tested it for correctness. If you have the capability to test out rawhide, please give it a spin.