On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 09:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 09:39, seth vidal wrote: > > why doesn't %post yum remove *.i?86 count? > > > > Why does EVERYTHING have to be accessible from within the installer? If > > a user wants to do something outside of the norm (and not install > > multilib packages, imo, is outside of the norm) then they should be able > > to login once and run one command. > > Because if I'm installing from remote sources, or if I'm at a datacenter, I > really don't want to download 2x as many packages, install 2x as many > packages, go through 2x as many scriptlets, just to remove 1/2 of them at the > end of it all. Seems pretty silly to me. Are we going to get to the point > where Anaconda just drops enough bits on the filesystem to reboot, launch > pirut and continue the install from there? > If you're at a datacenter installing linux then you should be installing by kickstart. If you're not doing that then you're doing a disservice to your customer b/c of the lack of a consistent install. :) And then the kickstart install should be something like: %packages %post yum remove \*.i?86 yum install stuff_I_want -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
