Installing all packages using kickstart

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Wed Dec 14 17:22:24 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:48 +0000, Magyari, Miklos wrote: 
> > "You can use a kickstart file to install every available package by
> >  specifying * in the %packages section. Red Hat does not support this type
> >  of installation.
> >  In previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this functionality was
> >  provided by @Everything, but this is not included in Red Hat Enterprise
> >  Linux 6."
> 
> thank you for pointing this out, * seems to be a help for 6, but for 5.x, combining everything and -conflicts still fails with package conflicts. We have only managed to run successful installs listing all package groups in the kickstart file, but this resulted tons of missing packages on the installed box.

you will need this patch 
http://www.serjux.com/pungi/pungi-2.0.14-revdeselectPackage.patch
or "-something" wont work. 
my lastest ks:
http://www.serjux.com/pungi/confs/f14-fedora.ks

I have done a script which check duplicated packages that appears in
repo: 
http://www.serjux.com/pungi/confs/checkduplicateds

I am also interested in respin all packages to work off-line. 

Thanks, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.




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