Bug 679440 - Package Selection docs for @everything is incorrect
Summary: Package Selection docs for @everything is incorrect
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Installation_Guide
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jack Reed
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Reported: 2011-02-22 15:31 UTC by Martin Poole
Modified: 2018-11-14 16:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-12-09 01:13:05 UTC
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Description Martin Poole 2011-02-22 15:31:40 UTC
Description of problem:

In the Pacakge Selection section of the 6.0 install guide (32.5) it describes the unsupported @everything option.

Neither the ISOs nor satellite channels have @everything.

Comment 1 William Burrows 2011-05-04 21:10:40 UTC
There is much more wrong with section 32.5 of the installation doc.  Here is a list:

1) As stated above, there is no '@everything' group, so instead of stating:

  Warning — @Everything is not supported

maybe it should read:

  Warning — @Everything is no longer included

2) The doc also covers using a (variant) after the @Conflict when using the @everything.  

"Packages known to cause such problems are assigned to the @Conflicts (variant) group, where variant is Server or Client. If you specify @Everything in a
kickstart file, be sure to exclude @Conflicts (variant) or the installation will fail:

@Everything (Server)
-@Conflicts"

The example given though shows the variant next to @everything instead of @conflict.  Very confusing.

3) Is the '*' also not supported?  Unlike the @everything group, the glob still pulls everything down.  The glob is also not included in the BOLD font at the top as not being supported, but is mentioned below that:

"You can use a kickstart file to install every available package by specifying @Everything or simply * in the %packages section. Red Hat does not support this type of installation."

I realize this is just semantics, but is the '*' supported or not by Red Hat? When I have asked people involved in the anaconda engineering group this question, I was informed "@Everything" is deprecated in favor of the more
generic glob mechanism, "*". "  Can we please update the doc to give the user a straightforward answer as to what is and what is not supported.


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