Brian Long wrote: > We have been using a customized kickstart for years, but with RHEL 4, we > plan to use Red Hat's existing kickstart infrastructure and bootstrap > yum to add anything extra. > > In doing this, I wonder how you can configure kickstart to install > optional packages inside a comps group without specifying each package > manually. For example, @ graphical-internet includes evolution- > connector as optional. I want it installed, so does that mean I have to > call it out specifically? Is there a group-by-group way to tell > Anaconda to install all packages including optional ones? Maybe a new > syntax like this: > > %packages > @ graphical-internet --include-optional > @ emacs > @ gnome-desktop > > /Brian/ brian - I kindof did this. I edited my comps.xml, removing groups that I did not want. I took it one step further, and removed packages from @base and @core that I did not want, either. It works quite well. What does this get me? It gets me the freedom of not specifying a single package in %packages, as @base and @core groups are hard-coded and are installed by default. If you'd like to have a copy of the command list that I used, please let me know. You might even want to create your own groups, which are copies of the origional groups, with other packages added and/or subtrated. Hope that helps. Thanks -dant
