[CentOS] Kickstart deploys more packages?

Mon Jan 13 00:35:18 UTC 2014
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>

On 01/12/2014 06:01 PM, Darod Zyree wrote:
> 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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