[Fedora-livecd-list] Don't Abort on Unresolved Dependencies

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
>> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> Smith, Mark E CTR USAF AFMC AEDC/ATA wrote:
>>>> I saw in a thread "How to ensure minimum version of packages?," 19
>>>> March
>>>> 2008, a reference to disabling abort for unresolved dependencies. How
>>>> do
>>>> you do that? I am working on a machine without internet access using
>>>> local repositories. The repositories are not complete and collecting
>>>> all
>>>> the dependencies and putting them on the machine piecemeal is painful.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> %packages --ignoredeps
>> Wouldn't this keep it from trying to resolve any dependency chains,
>> even the ones that _are_ present in the available repositories?
> 
> Mis-remembered the option.  From
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart?highlight=%28kickstart%29#head-72c36ffd538ba63e92e1bb696c4f296a23a45364
> 
> --ignoremissing
> 
>     * Ignore any packages or groups specified in the packages section that
> are not found in any configured repository. The default behavior is to
> halt the installation and ask the user if the installation should be
> aborted or continued. This option allows fully automated installation
> even in the error case. It is used as follows:
> 
>       %packages --ignoremissing
> 

That won't stop complaining over missing dependencies. It will only 
prevent borking on package foo being in the package manifest, but not 
being available from any of the repositories configured.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip