[CentOS] Not installing avahi in a kickstart install

Sun Mar 3 22:46:08 UTC 2013
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 03/03/2013 05:28 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2013 04:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> Am 03.03.2013 22:35, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>>> In the packages section of my kickstart I have:
>>>>
>>>> -avahi
>>>>
>>>> and I am still getting avahi and all of its rpms installed.  I don't
>>>> want avahi on my servers, how do I specify in a kickstart to NOT install it?
>>> do not install packages which requires avahi?
>>> which they are?
>>>
>>> try "yum remove avahi" and see what it lists after install....
>>>
>> The list is too long.  It includes firstboot!  Easier just to disable it
>> after install as I have been doing.  Just thought I could prevent it
>> from installing in the first place.  I can put a %post in to turn it off
>> at least.
> yes, that was my conclusion too. If you run a centos desktop (like I
> do), it simply wants to remove the whole gnome ;-).
>
> So we have cfengine stop the avahi-daemon service plus if the
> avahi-daemon process is running for whatever reason it gets stopped.

Looks a bit too much to take on at this point. But I will put a link in 
my notes for future study. Thanks.