On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:08 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Brian Long (brilong@xxxxxxxxx) said:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:01 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Brian Long (brilong@xxxxxxxxx) said:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > My group is working on our RHEL 4-based kickstart profiles. There are 3
> > > > RPMs that Anaconda installs even if we put -package in ks.cfg. rpm -e
> > > > is successful during %post, so I'd like to know how to narrow down why
> > > > Anaconda thinks it needs those packages. They are xorg-x11-xfs,
> > > > ttmkfdir, and chkfontpath.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to enable more verbosity such that Anaconda tells us why
> > > > they are pulled in (on Alt-F3 or wherever)?
> > >
> > > What's your package set?
> >
> > I've attached a text file which contains the %packages section of our
> > ks.cfg.
>
> emacs requires fonts-xorg-75dpi, which requires chkfontpath, ttmkfdir,
> etc.
Alright, Bill, thanks for looking those up. So tell me why rpm lets me
remove chkfontpath without complaining :-)
[root@rtp7-lnx-26h7 ~]# rpm -e ttmkfdir xorg-x11-xfs chkfontpath --test
[root@rtp7-lnx-26h7 ~]# rpm -q emacs
emacs-21.3-19.EL.1
[root@rtp7-lnx-26h7 ~]# rpm -qR emacs
Xaw3d
emacs-common = 21.3-19.EL.1
fonts-xorg-75dpi
libICE.so.6
libSM.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXaw3d.so.7
libXext.so.6
libXmu.so.6
libXpm.so.4
libXt.so.6
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
libjpeg
libjpeg.so.62
libm.so.6
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libncurses.so.5
libpng
libpng12.so.0
libtiff
libtiff.so.3
libungif
libungif.so.4
libz.so.1
ncurses
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
zlib
[root@rtp7-lnx-26h7 ~]# rpm -qR fonts-xorg-75dpi
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chkfontpath
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
As you stated, fonts-xorg-75dpi clearly requires chkfontpath, but rpm
allows me to remove chkfontpath without complaining. WTF? :) Time for
an issue tracker?
/Brian/
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