F17 updates broke anaconda PNG image handling

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 21:31:57 UTC 2012


Jos Vos (jos at xos.nl) said: 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> 
> > Note that my install now fails when installing the kernel, because
> > grub2-install can not be found.  I have to find out if this is an
> > user error (I only included @Base in my test install DVD) or that
> > this is something more serious.  If the kernel needs grub2-install,
> > it should Requires(post) that, isn't it?  It obviously doesn't...
> 
> I was partly wrong here.  This failure was not due to the kernel's
> %post, but anaconda couldn't find grub2-install for its final step.
> 
> It seems that I need to add grub2 manually to the pungi config file,
> which also pulls in the grub2-tools, file, and file-libs packages.
> Then it all works fine.
> 
> Is this expected behavior or should grub2 maybe be part of @Base?

You likely want '@anaconda-tools' in your compose - that's for "things
that anaconda chooses to install based on your filesystem/storage/boot
setup. This group creation was done late in the F17 cycle, sorry it wasn't
more widely announced.

Bill


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