[f19/master] hack for missing ntfsprogs in rhel

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Thu Jun 13 00:21:04 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:32:21PM -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> 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.

Ack

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 482 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/anaconda-patches/attachments/20130612/cffecf10/attachment.sig>


More information about the anaconda-patches mailing list