FC4 kickstart broken?

[Brandon Ooi]

Hi,

I agree with Espen, I tried removing some of the packages with rpm -e 
and yum but there are problems. I'm not sure how such a big bug could 
get into a Fedora major release.

Brandon

Espen Stefansen wrote:

>Hi
>
>I noticed this myself. It took me several hours to figure this out. A
>working day well spent. ;)
>
>So this is definately a bug. Looks almost like a showstopper to me.
>All of my Fedora kickstart-files fail. Definately not good.
>
>I'm thinking of trying to use yum to remove such things. But i'm
>afraid that dependencies will be the problem here.
>
>Regards 
>Espen
>
>
>On 6/23/05, Brandon Ooi <brandono at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>>Hi guys,
>>
>>I was hoping to shed some light on FC4's kickstart (anaconda). Graphical
>>installs work great but the Fedora team seems to be leaving the server
>>guys behind.
>>
>>My kickstart file is fairly basic. Because of our high-load server
>>environment, we try to trim down our builds and remove things a server
>>should never use (bluetooth, cups, wireless tools... etc...etc...). I
>>usually do this in the %packages  section with --resolvedeps.
>>
>>Simplified example:
>>
>>%package --resolvedeps
>>@ editors
>>kernel-smp
>>gcc
>>libpng-devel
>>-bluez-utils          <== breakage occurs here
>>-bluez-hcidump
>>
>>This kickstart file worked perfectly in FC3.  In FC4, when you try to
>>actually remove a package the installer crashes with an "unhandled
>>exception" telling me to report this as a bug. Something about a key
>>error in kickstart.py?
>>
>>If you comment out all the package removals, it "works." By works, i
>>mean it seems to install all the packages, but the resulting
>>anaconda-ks.cfg file in /root does not have anything meaningful in the
>>%package section. It almost seems like package selection in the
>>kickstart files is not supported anymore? I have not found a similar bug
>>on bugzilla which makes me wonder if something changed and I'm not
>>aware? if not I will file a bugzilla bug. Doing a graphical install of
>>FC4 on all our machines would take forever!
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated :)
>>
>>Brandon Ooi
>>
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