Upgrade package list

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 15:13, Peter Fales wrote:
> Can anyone explain how the package list is calculated for an upgrad?
> 
> I'm testing a kickstart upgrade from RH9 to Fedora Core 2.   I've
> listed packages I want installed in my ks.cfg file, but not all
> of them get installed.   According to /root/upgrade.log, 637
> packages were successfully upgraded, but then it goes on to say
> 
> The following packages were available in this version but NOT upgraded:
> Canna-3.7p1-6.i386.rpm
> ...
> 
> and then goes on to list over 900 packages that were not installed.  Some,
> such as "yum", were explicitly listed in my ks.cfg as desired.

An upgrade won't parse the %packages section.  An upgrade simply
upgrades the packages already installed.  To add new packages, you can
change the anaconda code to read your ks.cfg, add the packges to be
installed during %post, or run up2date/yum after first boot.

Forrest