Automated generation of installed packages list? (RHEL5)

[JB Segal]

It seems to be a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227383

One that claims to be in QA, and I can but hope that r5u1 includes the
fix.

That said, a generating tool would be great anyway. I'll check out the
one that was suggested yesterday in a bit.

JB

Quoth JB Segal (jb at smarterliving.com):
> 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,
> 
> JB
> 
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