<div dir="ltr">Hello Brandon, You are actually doing it wrong. You should try the following way. %packages @group1 @group2 --nodefaults @group3 --optional package1 package2 -package3 <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">The option --optional shall be used with the package group not with %packages section. The same is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6[1] and 7[2] as well. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">A link[3] from Fedora Documentation also explains about it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline"> [1] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#s1-kickstart2-packageselection">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#s1-kickstart2-packageselection</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">[2] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html#sect-kickstart-packages">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html#sect-kickstart-packages</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">[3] <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/wiki/KickstartPackageSelection">https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/wiki/KickstartPackageSelection</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">Regards,</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">Pushp</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;display:inline">endra</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Ess, Brandon <<a href="mailto:Brandon.Ess@atk.com" target="_blank">Brandon.Ess@atk.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Hello, I’m working on Kickstart scripts targeted towards RHEL 5/6/7 and I would like to make them all as portable and reusable as possible. I understand some options and flags were added in newer releases of Anaconda but I cannot find documentation stating which options were added in which Anaconda version. A “works with RHEL {version}” would also help. My current question is this, for package selection I would like to also install optional packages using the --optional parameter at %packages --optional but for a RHEL6 installs Anaconda throws the error “no such option: --optional” Is the --optional parameter not available for RHEL6 installs? ###################### # Package Selection # ###################### #Core Packages %packages --optional @core @base @Compatibility libraries @Desktop @Development tools @General Purpose Desktop @Server Platform Development @X Window System ntp Thanks, Brandon </div> </div> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div>