Re: Installing RH/Fedora with rpm '--excludedocs'

["Stuart J. Browne" <sjbrowne bluebottle com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Lumens" <clumens redhat com>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: Installing RH/Fedora with rpm '--excludedocs'


> > I'm trying to create a minimal install but so far there's still over 60MB 
> > of '/usr/share/doc' and man pages of which aren't required.
> >
> > Going through the KickStart documentation, I've not found a way to do 
> > this, but I was wondering if anybody know of a way.
>
> %packages takes a --excludedocs parameter, but it doesn't actually do
> anything at the moment.  It might do things again in the future as the
> backend work progresses.

Phooey.  Didn't see that one.

Ah well, 'modified' installer, here I come.. ;)

Thanks Chris.

Stuart J. Browne