[CentOS] Excluding ConsoleKit in kickstart

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 05/15/2012 05:22 AM, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on automating virtual machine installs using kickstart files
>> and virt-install. The problem I have is that these kickstart installations
>> install different packages than a minimal manual install. While I got rid
>> of some of them I can't seem to prevent ConsoleKit from getting installed.
>> I put "-ConsoleKit" in the packages section and later also added packages
>> that require it but in the end it is still getting installed.
>> Any ideas what I could do to stop it from being installed?
> 
> You have to find the package that is pulling it in as a dependency and
> exclude that. What I would try first is to do a yum erase ConsoleKit and
> see what else it wants to erase. Then exclude those packages as well.
> 
> I tried this on a headless machine I have running and got the following
> results:
> 
> Removing:
>   ConsoleKit                 x86_64      0.4.1-3.el6              @anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64/6.2   263 k
> Removing for dependencies:
>   hal                        x86_64      0.5.14-11.el6            @anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64/6.2   1.2 M
>   hal-info                   noarch      20090716-3.1.el6         @anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64/6.2   310 k
>   pm-utils                   x86_64      1.2.5-9.el6              @anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64/6.2   254 k
>   polkit                     x86_64      0.96-2.el6_0.1           @anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64/6.2   601 k
> 
> While you might be able to run without polkit and pm-utils, I suspect that
> you most likely want the hal packages.

That's what I tried and this worked with other packages that I have
excluded but not for ConsoleKit. This is what my packages section looks like:

%packages
@core
@server-policy
-mlocate
-abrt*
-mdadm
-kexec-tools
-prelink
-readahead
-hal
-hal-info*
-pm-utils
-ConsoleKit*
-polkit
-libfprint
%end

I excluded "abrt" but that got dragged in again by some sub-packages so I
excluded "abrt*" instead and that works fine but even if I remove all the
packages that pull in ConsoleKit after the installation and reboot I still
see the console-kit-daemon running.

I'm not sure if I need hal. The default minimal installation of Centos 6
doesn't include it so I don't think it's really necessary.

Regards,
  Dennis