Re: RHEL 5/6/7 Kickstart Options

Hello Brandon,

You are actually doing it wrong. You should try the following way.







*%packages@group1@group2 --nodefaults@group3
--optionalpackage1package2-package3*


The option --optional shall be used with the package group not with
%packages section. The same is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6[1]
and 7[2] as well.

A link[3] from Fedora Documentation also explains about it.

[1]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#s1-kickstart2-packageselection
​

​[2]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html#sect-kickstart-packages
​

​[3] https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/wiki/KickstartPackageSelection​


​Regards,​

​Pushp​
​​
​endra​


On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Ess, Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>
>
> I’m working on Kickstart scripts targeted towards RHEL 5/6/7 and I would
> like to make them all as portable and reusable as possible. I understand
> some options and flags were added in newer releases of Anaconda but I
> cannot find documentation stating which options were added in which
> Anaconda version. A “works with RHEL {version}” would also help.
>
>
>
> My current question is this, for package selection I would like to also
> install optional packages using the --optional parameter at  *%packages
> --optional *but for a RHEL6 installs Anaconda throws the error “*no such
> option: --optional*”
>
>
>
> Is the --optional parameter not available for RHEL6 installs?
>
>
>
> *######################*
>
> *# Package Selection  #*
>
> *######################*
>
>
>
> *#Core Packages*
>
> *%packages --optional*
>
> *@core*
>
> *@base*
>
> *@Compatibility libraries*
>
> *@Desktop*
>
> *@Development tools*
>
> *@General Purpose Desktop*
>
> *@Server Platform Development*
>
> *@X Window System*
>
> *ntp*
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
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