It seems to be a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227383 One that claims to be in QA, and I can but hope that r5u1 includes the fix. That said, a generating tool would be great anyway. I'll check out the one that was suggested yesterday in a bit. JB Quoth JB Segal (jb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > 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, > > JB > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- JB Segal 617-886-5575 www.smartertravel.com Systems/Network Admin. 465 Medford St. Ste 400 www.bookingbuddy.com Smarter Travel Media LLC Boston, MA 02129 www.tripmania.com