Re: RHEL 5/6/7 Kickstart Options

["Mr. Pushpendra Chavan" <chavanpushpendra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Brandon,

You are actually doing it wrong. You should try the following way.

%packages
@group1
@group2 --nodefaults
@group3 --optional
package1
package2
-package3

The option --optional shall be used with the package group not with %packages section. The same is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6[1] and 7[2] as well.

A link[3] from Fedora Documentation also explains about it.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#s1-kickstart2-packageselection​

​[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html#sect-kickstart-packages​

​[3] https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/wiki/KickstartPackageSelection​

​Regards,​

​Pushp​

​​

​endra​

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Ess, Brandon <Brandon.Ess@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

 

I’m working on Kickstart scripts targeted towards RHEL 5/6/7 and I would like to make them all as portable and reusable as possible. I understand some options and flags were added in newer releases of Anaconda but I cannot find documentation stating which options were added in which Anaconda version. A “works with RHEL {version}” would also help.

 

My current question is this, for package selection I would like to also install optional packages using the --optional parameter at  %packages --optional but for a RHEL6 installs Anaconda throws the error “no such option: --optional”

 

Is the --optional parameter not available for RHEL6 installs?

 

######################

# Package Selection  #

######################

 

#Core Packages

%packages --optional

@core

@base

@Compatibility libraries

@Desktop

@Development tools

@General Purpose Desktop

@Server Platform Development

@X Window System

ntp

 

Thanks,

 

Brandon

 

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