FC4 kickstart broken?

[Brandon Ooi]

Thanks! That will save me from having to do a bunch of rpm -e's. Does 
this mean that if we were to do an x86_64 install, we append .x86_64?

Thanks again!

Brandon



Chris Lumens wrote:

>> 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!
>
>
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160209.  The
> quick explanation is that we added support to exclude by architecture at
> the last minute and broke the normal case.  A workaround would be to
> append ".i386" or whatever to the names of the packages you want to
> exclude.
>
> - Chris
>
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