On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 10:16, rpjday wrote: > On 2 Jun 2002, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 12:12, Philip Rowlands wrote: > > > >Is this true? If yes, is there an option in kickstart to do a dependancy > > > >check for all rpms and then auto-install them as well? > > > > > > If there's a way to access Anaconda's dependency resolution routines in > > > kickstart mode, I've never found it. AFAIK, the %package section > > > defines, with the aid of the comps file, all the packages to be > > > installed, and no more (with "Base" included by default). > > > > Not entirely true. In Red Hat Linux 7.3 and later, you can specify > > '%packages --resolvedeps' instead of just %packages and all of the > > dependencies will be resolved and installed. > > since the customization guide describes the two options: --resolvedeps and > --ignoredeps, what is the default? one would think that either resolving > the dependencies or ignoring them pretty much covers the range of > possibilities, does it not? so why have two different options to specify > one or the other? or is there some obscure third possibility that i'm > not seeing? Prompt and ask the user what they want to do. Cheers, Jeremy
