Problems with F8 kickstart

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 21:31:35 UTC 2007


> > After the reboot, it turned out that many of the things I
> > expected to be installed weren't (emacs, fvwm, fluxbox, and most
> > importantly xfs, so X couldn't find any fonts.)
> 
> emacs is in editors as optional
> fvwm is in window-managers as optional
> fluxbox is in window-managers as optional
> xorg-x11-xfs is in base-x as optional
> 
> I don't think including a group in the kickstart includes the optional
> packages, only the mandatory and default.

This is exactly right.  If you want the optional packages for a group,
you either need to list them separately or do this:

@editors --optional

The latter only works on F8 and later releases, though.

- Chris




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