FC4 kickstart broken?

[Espen Stefansen]

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:
> 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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