Cross posting ... my bad but I thought for sure you guys would have already had to address this issue with Revisor.... given the output of rpm -qa can pykickstart work with the comps.xml file to create a 'grouped and minus' package list? Hi, I have been messing with Revisor - a FedoraCommunity project - and it uses pykickstart which may - using the comps.xml file be able to generate a list like that for you. Email the revisor list and see if anyone smart with the code could give you some quick python to do it. Aaron On 7/9/07, JB Segal <jb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quoth Jason Edgecombe (jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > JB Segal wrote: > >A somewhat more than cursory glance at the archives doesn't show the answer to this... > >At the end of a manually-configured install, where I spent a reasonable amount of time > >going through the available packages, picking those I wanted, and those I didn't, the only > >evidence of this left in the anaconda-ks.cfg is the wholly-insubstantial lines > >%packages > >@editors > > > >and that's IT. > > > >A) Would anyone like to guess whether this is a bug, a design lacuna, or a 'feature'? > >B) Is there any way to generate an appropriate ks.cfg based upon this system? > > > >While it seems that the KS docs have been revised and updated for RHEL5, at this hour on > >a Sunday, I'm not managing to find anything about reverse-engineering a package list, nor > >anything about why I should ever NEED to do that. > > > >Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give, > run "rpm -qa" on the installed system. That will generate a package list for you. > Yes. Sorry, I was more thinking of something in a default ks.cfg format, with the groups that are installed, and the modifications to those groups - for example, with RHEL4, I got the following in the autogenerated file: %packages --resolvedeps @ editors @ emacs @ system-tools @ dialup @ ftp-server @ emacs @ server-cfg @ development-tools kernel-smp -bluez-pin e2fsprogs lvm2 -httpd-manual -distcache -uucp -samba-client -x3270-x11 -php -cvs kernel-devel -rcs kernel-smp-devel -xdelta -valgrind -valgrind-callgrind and I was hoping for something more like that. (Actually, it's not impossible that some number of the '-package' lines were manually configured by me. I'm not certain anymore... but still, I know the '@ group' lines WEREN'T, and the fact that RHEL5 doesn't provide those I figure MUST be a bug.) I'll go digging through bugzilla today to see what's already been filed... _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
