On 10/22/2014 09:00 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> Trying to figure out how to set up a kickstart %packages section for SL7.
>
> If I put in a group to be installed that includes a package I don't want
> to install what's the proper way to set that up?
>
> My tests so far haven't revealed a good solution.  It seems like if I
> specify a group, but them exclude a package that is in that group the
> whole group gets excluded.
>
> For instance, I want @gnome-desktop-environment to be installed it will
> pull in the @internet-browser group which includes firefox.  I don't
> want the firefox package to be installed.  I added "-firefox" so it
> would be excluded but the test I did seemed to have excluded
> @gnome-desktop-environment.
>
> How do I get the desktop without the firefox package.  I suppose I could
> figure out all the different packages I want and include them by package
> name instead of the group but that seems like a lot of extra work in the
> kickstart.
>

That does seem odd.  I've been doing similar for years without any trouble.

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