On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 07:40 -0800, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > On 2/13/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:26:57AM -0800, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > > > I know I can select groups of packages when doing a kickstart > > > installation. (base, gnome, etc) But how can I select all the > > > packages for installation, even the ones that aren't selected by > > > default in those groups? > > > > Why would you ever want that? > > It's easier to install everything, than trying to figure out later > that a user wants a piece of software and trying to go back and > install it and its dependencies. > > For example, gvim isn't in the the editor group by default, for some > strange reason. So I'd have to add that one to the kickstart file, > along with its dependencies. And repeat for a lot of others that I > don't know about yet. > b/c of all the updates that normally need to be applied for any given install - we tend to make our %packages list very, very thin and add all the necessary bits in %post via yum. it makes the install go faster b/c you don't have to futz around with applying updates as well as the original package. oh - and this is probably better off on kickstart-list -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
