On Monday, November 20 2000, Matt Fahrner said: > How do you make it so kickstart/install doesn't install RPMs listed in > the "comps" file simply by alphabetic order? We have our own company > specific packages that we've prefixed with "bcf" that we add to the > "@ Base" section. However, regardless of where we put them in the > "@ Base" section because they start with "b" they load earlier than most > packages, some of which they depend on. We've taken to renaming them > "zbcf" (eg: zbcf-commoncron-1.1-1.i386.rpm), but that's ugly. Is there a > better way? If your rpm requires that a package be installed prior to it being installed, then it must have a Prereq: set for the needed package. A prereq will ensure that the packages get installed prior to instead of just in the same RPM trasnsaction set. > For our office users we want to load "Everything" (this will get them to > shut up we hope) however since "Everything" pulls all the packages in > the "RPMS" directory regardless, this causes it to load all of our "bcf" > packages even though some are intended only for very specific systems > (we still want to install them under kickstart, just different kickstart > systems - we use the same install base for our store systems as our > office systems). > > Getting to the point, it would be nice if you could do something like: > > %packages > @ Everything > ! somepackage > > where "! somepackage" means "exclude the package `somepackage'" (ie: > delete it from the list of packages selected). This would also help when > you want to exclude a package from the "@ Base", which sometimes you do > (for instance there is a class of systems that we create where we do not > want to put on the C compiler for security reasons). Base doesn't include the compiler and in fact doesn't include much beyond the bits necessary to satisfy common dependencies. If you're really concerned, then I'd probably explicitly specify each package I want installed instead of leaving anything to chance (/ or modify the comps file with custom package groups). Alternately, file a request for enhancement in bugzilla. Cheers, Jeremy -- Jeremy Katz katzj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | jlkatz@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://linuxpower.org | Developer, NCSU Realm Kit for Red Hat Linux GPG fingerprint: 367E 8B6B 5E57 2BDB 972A 4D73 C83C B4E8 89FE 392D QOTD: The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us, the Universe.
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