Installing RH/Fedora with rpm '--excludedocs'

[Brian Long]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 08:38 +1000, Stuart J. Browne wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Lumens" <clumens at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Installing RH/Fedora with rpm '--excludedocs'
> 
> 
> >> I'm trying to create a minimal install but so far there's still over 60MB 
> >> of '/usr/share/doc' and man pages of which aren't required.
> >>
> >> Going through the KickStart documentation, I've not found a way to do 
> >> this, but I was wondering if anybody know of a way.
> >
> > %packages takes a --excludedocs parameter, but it doesn't actually do
> > anything at the moment.  It might do things again in the future as the
> > backend work progresses.
> 
> Phooey.  Didn't see that one.
> 
> Ah well, 'modified' installer, here I come.. ;)

Anaconda uses the rpm-python libraries to install RPMs, right?  As long
as this library supports the excludedocs parameter, wouldn't you just
need to pass this as part of the library call while you're installing
each RPM?  Why wouldn't Red Hat have this already enabled?

/Brian/

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