Why don't you go ahead and share that with the list...I know I would appreciate it. Mike B. On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:31 -0600, Dan Trainor wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- mbox mbarsalou <barjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
