Why are you "unselecting" sendmail, when it's not in your distribution?
How are you exactly specifying the package list in the %packages
section? Are you specifying by group, or by individual packages?
Did you remove any packages that are in the Core and Base group? If so,
then you will need to modify the comps.xml file.
--brett
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:42, Skahan, Vince wrote:
> In trying to kickstart off of a stripped redhat-80 cdrom, I got the following
> exception from anaconda. Should I enter a bugzilla on this at redhat.com ?
>
> Changes made to a vanilla rh80 cd-1:
> - removed a bunch of unnecessary to me rpms from RedHat/RPMS
> - ran genhdlist against the modified tree to update the hdlist files to match
> - burned a custom bootable cdrom from it
> - tried to kickstart from the cd
>
> Before anaconda installs anything, it blows up with the attached traceback.
>
> (hopefully I typed these correctly)
> -------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694 in ?
> intf.run(id,dispatch,configFileData)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 402, in run
> (step,args) = dispatch.currentStep()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 251 in currentStep
> self.gotoNext()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150 in gotoNext
> self.moveStep()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215 in moveStep
> rc = apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 121, in readPackages
> id.instClass.setGroupSelection(id.comps)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1122 in setGroupSelection
> comps.packages[n].unselect()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 171 in __get_item__
> return self.packages[item]
> KeyError: sendmail
>
> Note the last line mentioning sendmail. The sendmail rpm is the first package
> de-selected in my %packages section and it's "not" present on the modified cd.
>
> What I think is happening is anaconda is looking in hdlist for the name/filename
> key/value pair for the packages I've told it to 'not' install sayeth my ks.cfg file,
> and it's blowing up on not finding the name to precise filename mapping info
> it expects.
>
> In my ks.cfg file, I set "%packages --ignoredeps", so at worst shouldn't it just
> log "can't get the filename" and move on to the next item rather than blowing up ?
>
> Lastly, what to do ? Choices appear to be:
>
> - fix anaconda to skip packages it can't get the filename for
> (ugh - fix it with a custom updates.img file or unrolling stage2.img?)
>
> - edit out the rpms I've removed from RPMS in comps.xml
> (could I just mark all the ones I've deleted as 'optional' not 'mandatory'?)
>
> - put the blasted RPMS on cd to not have to deal with anaconda bugs
> (would really not to burn rpms I won't use onto the cd)
>
> - any others ?
>
> Thanks for any help...
>
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