Multilib in FC7? Disable by default?

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Mon Aug 21 14:54:51 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 21 August 2006 09:49, seth vidal wrote:
>   
>> If you're at a datacenter installing linux then you should be installing
>> by kickstart. If you're not doing that then you're doing a disservice to
>> your customer b/c of the lack of a consistent install. :)
>>     
>
> Er, s/Datacenter/Colo/  What if it's just my box there, I'm not going to 
> hassle with setting up my laptop to be a kickstart server to reinstall one 
> system or two.  My laptop might be the install source, but not a full blown 
> kickstart box.
>
>   
>> And then the kickstart install should be something like:
>>
>>
>> %packages
>>
>>
>>
>> %post
>> yum remove \*.i?86
>> yum install stuff_I_want
>>     
>
> Doesn't this seem backwards to you?  Have anaconda run through, do all the dep 
> checking, pull all the packages down and install them, then remove half of it 
> (redoing dep checking), get a new list of packages to install, dep check 
> again, download some more, and then install again?
>
>   
what about adding a nomultilib boot option to anaconda and document it 
in the release notes?
-> problem solved




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