You can safely remove them if you are running an x86 machine. These packages are for IA64/PPC/s390 machines. You can just leave them in as well. You'll get a warning message on VT4(?) during installation, but it is harmless. Forrest On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:00, Paul Pianta wrote: > hi people > > in a quick run through comps.xml i have found several 'mystery' packages > that are listed in the 'core' group: > > <packagereq type="mandatory">efibootmgr</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">elilo</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">s390utils</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">yaboot</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">ppc64-utils</packagereq> > > and the 'base' group: > > <packagereq type="default">prctl</packagereq> > > There are no rpms for these packages in the RPMS directory. My question > is - can i remove these lines from the comps.xml safely or are they > there for a specific purpose? > > thanks > > pantz
