Description of problem: ksvalidator thinks --nobase has no effect on package selection. It does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pykickstart-1.99.22-1.fc18.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add --nobase to %packages 2. ksvalidator ks.cfg Actual results: Output is: [chester@localhost initrd]$ ksvalidator ks.cfg Ignoring deprecated option on line 29: The --nobase option has been deprecated and no longer has any effect. It may be removed from future releases, which will result in a fatal error from kickstart. Please modify your kickstart file to remove this option. Expected results: No such report. Additional info: Removing the --nobase option adds 150 packages to be installed.
Also, this ks.cfg is being used to launch a RHEL 6.2 installation (but ksvalidator is being run on FC18).
Rerunning with -v RHEL 6 also reproduces the issue: [chester@localhost initrd]# ksvalidator -v RHEL6 ks.cfg Ignoring deprecated option on line 29: The --nobase option has been deprecated and no longer has any effect. It may be removed from future releases, which will result in a fatal error from kickstart. Please modify your kickstart file to remove this option.
--nobase hasn't done anything since the following commit in anaconda: commit 67aadec0d698764deb74d3021dd7373d64e69e12 Author: Bill Nottingham <notting> Date: Wed Sep 5 10:41:05 2012 -0400 Drop the addBase handling in anaconda - if you want a group, list a group.
This was using the following RHEL 6.2 ISO, which looks out of date: RHEL6.2-20111117.0-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso
--nobase is still present in RHEL6, but `ksvalidator --version=RHEL6' still displays the warning.
Ah, I see. Now to come up with a test case to make sure it doesn't happen again...
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