On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:06, Lynn, Michael (DCS) wrote: > Does anyone know how ipchains and iptables are getting installed if I > don't reference them explicitly in my %packages list in the ks.cfg. > > I build a custom ks.cfg for each install and explicitly reference all > packages that I want installed - I don't use package groupings and yet > - ipchains and iptables get installed. > > Is Advanced Server built to automatically install these? Is there > some other controlling mechanism that determines packages that get > installed? The packages are in the base component, so they always get selected for installation. The only way to not install them is to put them in %packages with a - before them -- explicitly excluding them from the list. Thanks. Peter