Automated generation of installed packages list? (RHEL5)

[Jason Edgecombe]

JB Segal wrote:
> A somewhat more than cursory glance at the archives doesn't show the 
> answer to this...
> At the end of a manually-configured install, where I spent a 
> reasonable amount of time
> going through the available packages, picking those I wanted, and 
> those I didn't, the only
> evidence of this left in the anaconda-ks.cfg is the 
> wholly-insubstantial lines
> %packages
> @editors
>
> and that's IT.
>
> A) Would anyone like to guess whether this is a bug, a design lacuna, 
> or a 'feature'?
> B) Is there any way to generate an appropriate ks.cfg based upon this 
> system?
>
> While it seems that the KS docs have been revised and updated for 
> RHEL5, at this hour on
> a Sunday, I'm not managing to find anything about reverse-engineering 
> a package list, nor
> anything about why I should ever NEED to do that.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give,
run "rpm -qa" on the installed system. That will generate a package list 
for you.

Jason