topic Re: kickstart excluding packages .... in Operating System - Linux

kickstart excluding packages ....

K.C. Chan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:10:13 GMT

All,
I need to exclude packages such as:
@ portuguese-support
@ japanese-support
@ hungarian-support
@ punjabi-support
@ british-support
@ korean-support
@ german-support
@ swedish-support
@ russian-support
@ gujarati-support
@ catalan-support
@ turkish-support
@ arabic-support
@ italian-support
@ slovak-support
@ slovenian-support
@ romanian-support
@ greek-support
@ compat-arch-support
@ danish-support
@ brazilian-support
@ welsh-support
@ tamil-support

How would I list that in kickstart config file?
Thanks.

Re: kickstart excluding packages ....

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:34:03 GMT

You can use system-config-kickstart or redhat-config-kickstart to modify the settings.

Normally, packages not selected are not installed.

Also you can specify

%packages
-package-name

See these samples:

http://sial.org/howto/kickstart/fedora/packages/

Re: kickstart excluding packages ....

K.C. Chan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:06:22 GMT

So, instead of "@" I use "-"?

Re: kickstart excluding packages ....

K.C. Chan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:11:12 GMT

This is what I have:

%packages
@ engineering-and-scientific
@ mysql
@ editors
@ system-tools
@ text-internet
@ x-software-development
@ legacy-software-development
@ base-x
@ graphics
@ web-server
@ printing
@ server-cfg
@ sound-and-video
@ admin-tools
@ development-tools
@ graphical-internet
@ compat-arch-development
@ compat-arch-support
@ development-libs
@ x86-compat-libs

Does any one know, why language support is included? I just want english, not kde-i18n-Ukrain, kde-i18n-Japanese.....

Thhanks.

Re: kickstart excluding packages ....

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:01:56 GMT

@ Is for "INSTALL" the "GROUP"
- Is for deselect a package.

What I did not tried is if you can "deselect" a "GROUP", like this:

-@slovenian-support

You can do for individual packages. And I think that the packages listed, are under a group, so maybe you need to set:

-brazilian-support
-tamil-support
etc.

But as I told you, you can use system-config-kickstart to deselect the languages not used. That will generate the right sintax for the kickstart file.

Re: kickstart excluding packages ....

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:44:02 GMT

After I made up my mind, I noted that @ installs a group of packages, if the group is not listed, then the entire group is not installed. If you need to install a group, but exclude some packages from the group, select the group with @ and deselect the unnedded packages with -packagename.