On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Fong Vang enlightened us: > I'm trying to kickstart a Centos 4.1 system with the minimum set of > packages. I have no use for ypbind so I'm trying to prevent from > being installed, but kickstart/anaconda always insist on its > installation (complaining that the package is missing). This is the > %packages section of my ks file so far: > > %packages > #-@ dialup > kernel > grub > e2fsprogs > lvm2 > -slocate > -bluez-utils > -bluez-bluefw > -bluez-hcidump-1.11-1.i386.rpm > -isdn4k-utils > -pcmcia-cs > -ppp > -wvdial > -ypbind > > as you can see, ypbind is deselected in the ks file. Is ypbind a > mandatory package? In the RPMS directory, I tried to determine what > package may be requiring ypbind, but I could find any. This is what I > used to determine what package may be requiring it: > According to my 4.1 system, ypbind requires yp-tools, and yp-tools requires ypbind. Yay for circular dependencies! yum remove ypbind on my system also removes yp-tools, so if you give your ks file a -yp-tools as well, you should be all right, I would think. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050815/c78ab3a0/attachment-0004.sig>