On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 07:41, Smith, Eric V. wrote: > > Is it not possible to specify the %packages section from a > > %include file? I'm attempting to generate the list of > > packages I want installed using code in the %pre section. > > I'm able to generate partitioning information in %pre which I > > then %include, but not the %packages section. > > > > It looks like the %packages section is read before the %pre > > section is executed. My %packages in the include file is > > just being ignored, as if I did not specify the section at > > all. Can anyone verify this? It probably didn't work in 8.0, should work in phoebe. Basically, we were resetting the package list on each parse, so the list from the %include got overriden later. Cheers, Jeremy