Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55451
Kickstart install un-requested language modules
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:54 EDT
Description of Problem: I've been testing kickstart installations of RedHat Linux 7.2. In my .cfg file, I have lang en_US langsupport --default en_US However, it seems to go ahead and install all the optional language modules even though the instructions in base/comps seem to imply that these should only be loaded if an alternate language is specified. For example, base/comps says (lang zh_CN): kde-i18n-Chinese yet the kde-i1n-Chinese package still got loaded Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Very reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. (See above) Actual Results: Language packages all got installed Expected Results: Language packages should not be installed Additional Information:
Hey, I did it one more time with langsupport --default en_US en_US Is that the way it's supposed to work? That gave me the desired results. Now I want to go back and try again with langsupport --default en_US just to make sure I'm not fooling myself
Yes, that did it! I did it again both with and without the double "en_US" . With the doubled entry it worked the way I wanted it to, with only one entry the extra languages are installed.
So, how do you want to resolve this bug report? Perhaps we should make the docs more clear that both entries are needed?
My problem is solved, as long as I'v found a way to work around it, so you can close it if you want to. Certainly the documentation could be made clearer. The current wording is: langsupport Sets the language(s) to install on the system. That implies to me that it is possible to install a single language on the system, but provides no clue that it is necessary to specify the language twice in order to install it once!
Actually, I was doing some kickstart installs last night and figued out that you only need the '--default' if you have more than one language list on the langsupport line. For example: "langsupport en_US" is perfectly valid. This will install just the US English modules and make it the default lang, because that's the only possible one. So in your case, you could have just used that. tfox, can you clarify this behavior in the kickstart docs? Please ask me if you need a better description of what the behavior is.
Thanks for your input. I updated the docs to clarify this matter. It should appear in the next version of the docs.