[CentOS] Kickstart deploys more packages?

[Clint Dilks]

Hi,

It looks like you forgot to attach the file or the list stripped it :)



On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Darod Zyree <darodzyree at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:47 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How about using rpm to see what extra packages are installed then we may
> be
> > able to work out why.
> >
> > Perform a Manual install and save the result of rpm -qa | sort, then run
> > your KickStart based installed and run the same command.  A diff between
> > the two results should show whats extra packages are being installed. :)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Darod Zyree <darodzyree at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 22:20 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > > On 01/12/2014 10:10 PM, Darod Zyree wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know why an Anaconda Kickstart installation deploys
> more
> > > rpm
> > > > > packages than a manual "basic" installation?
> > > > >
> > > > > In both cases the following package groups were installed/used
> > > according
> > > > > to anaconda-ks.cfg in root home directory: @core, @server-policy,
> > > > > @workstation-policy
> > > >
> > > > what ones are more or which ones are missing ?
> > > >
> > > > also compare the anaconda-ks.cfg left behind on both attempts, are
> you
> > > > sure the %packages section looks identical ?
> > > >
> > > My kickstart installation does 397 RPM packages.
> > > A manual installation does 217 RPM packages.
> > >
> > > My kickstart installation uses only an OS repository; no updates, epel
> > > or anything like that for this test.
> > >
> > > This repository was created using rsync and centos 6.5 iso.
> > >
> > > Kickstart package list:
> > > %packages
> > > @core
> > > @server-policy
> > > @workstation-policy
> > >
> > > Which is the same as choosing the "minimal" installation type during
> > > manual anaconda as shown in the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file after the
> > > manual installation is completed.
> > >
>
> see attachment diff
>
>
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