Thank you all for the quick reponses. For the install order issue we will add the "Prereq"'s to our packages. Erik Troan wrote: > > where "! somepackage" means "exclude the package `somepackage'"... > > Bleah -- sounds like a pain. Generating an explicit list of packages > isn't *that* hard. Actually it looks to be about 3 lines of Anaconda code to do what I'm suggesting. As you read through the kickstart file if you see the "!somerpm" patern you simply deselect that package. Of course that may be an oversimplification. > Generating an explicit list of packages isn't *that* hard. Well, it can be a pain and we have to do it each time a new OS release comes out. Its definitely ugly. It makes the kickstart file ugly. Another reason to support this is the fact you cannot *deselect* the "Base" package - the anaconda code automatically selects it. As far as I can tell, if there are items you don't want installed from it (Base) there is no way to turn them off short of deleting them from the "comps" file itself or removing them in the "%post" (ugly!). Yes, I guess the C compiler isn't in Base (I swear it was before - I don't know) but there are things an administrator might not want on some of their machines (while allowing them on others) and this would allow administrators to unselect them without having to hack the comps file on each OS revision. Adding a way to deselect certain packages from the defined base packages would give a gracefull solution that would allow us to carry kickstart files unmodified from RedHat version to RedHat version cleanly. I still think it's a good idea. - Matt -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fahrner 2 South Park St. Manager of Networking Willis House Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lebanon, N.H. 03766 TEL: (603) 448-4100 xt 5150 USA FAX: (603) 443-6190 Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------
