A little birdy told me that Stephen John Smoogen said: ] On 5/1/07, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote: ] > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Benjamin Karhan wrote: ] > ] > > i, for one, would have been satisfied with an: ] > > "everything from the Base respository" ] > > option... which would have included all the packages from the Base ] > repo... ] > > basically, the what i wanted fulfilled was something approaching ] > > the same "final product" as "Everything" from the 4.x series installer... ] > ] > Go to a C4 box with an @Everything install and run ] > rpm -qa --queryformat='%{name}\n' > everything.txt ] > ] > stuff that in %packages on C5 kickstart, install, clean up errors..etc ] > ] ] or go into the RPM directory on the dvd and do a ] ] (for x in $(ls -1 *rpm); do ] rpm --qf='%{name}\n' -qf $x ] done) | sort | uniq > everything.txt ] ] add that to the kickstart and punt. that IS the kind of solution that i would have to advocate... under the current scenario... the only point i was making was that there were zero extra steps to accomplish the same thing previously... B. Karhan simon at pop.psu.edu PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator