[f19/master] hack for missing ntfsprogs in rhel

David Lehman dlehman at redhat.com
Wed Jun 12 17:32:21 UTC 2013


We should be trying to include utilities for all devices in the system
and their filesystems. In general, packages we flag as being required
in the running system are strictly required -- that is, the install will
fail if they are not available. You don't want an ext4 rootfs without
e2fsprogs installed in the system. ntfsprogs presents a special case in
that the package does not exist in the rhel package set, so we have to
provide a mechanism for install classes to call out packages that should
not be installed regardless of the system configuration.

The original "fix" for this issue was to only include utilities for
devices and filesystem actually used by the newly installed system, but
that is sort of a copout. People should be able work with their filesystems.



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