[CentOS] Kickstart deploys more packages?

Sun Jan 12 23:01:46 UTC 2014
Darod Zyree <darodzyree at gmail.com>

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.
> >

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