[CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

Wed Jul 20 11:50:31 UTC 2011
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 07/20/2011 02:37 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Oh, I believe you I'm just puzzled why I need the package and you don't.
> Can you post an "rpm -qa|sort" of the final Package list you have in 
> the installed System?
>
> Regards,
>   Dennis
>
Already done that in my first mail. 
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20110720/c78c2c2d/attachment.txt


     manuel

> On 07/20/2011 08:19 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 07/20/2011 01:45 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> On 07/19/2011 11:36 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>>> On 07/20/2011 12:15 AM, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
>>>>> On 07/19/2011 12:36 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
>>>>>> rpm -e $(rpm -qa |grep -i firmware)
>>>>> This should be changed to:
>>>>> rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware)
>>>>>
>>>>> Since apparently kernel depends on kernel-firmware.
>>>> Try the attached ks. It installs around 180 packages. 
>>>> libselinux-utils is
>>>> in because I find it mandatory to be able to modify the selinux
>>>> configuration of an existing system.
>>>>
>>>> There are a few packages left which can be removed if you insist:
>>>> - the firmware packages if you do not use that specific hardware ( 
>>>> atmel,
>>>> brocade, qlogic ).
>>>> - yum-presto if you prefer to always download full rpm packages 
>>>> instead of
>>>> deltas
>>>> - which, acl, attr
>>> Interesting. I'm also experimenting with a minimal kickstart and 
>>> without
>>> the system-config-firewall-base package I can no longer login. 
>>> Apparently
>>> the login succeeds but I immediately get thrown back to the login 
>>> prompt.
>>> As soon as I add that package everything is fine again.