Kickstart does not honor exclusion of open-vm-tools package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Issue
Kickstartdoes not honor exclusion ofopen-vm-toolspackage in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 77.3installer iso forcibly installs packagesopen-vm-tools-desktopand its dependenciesopen-vm-toolsandlibX11.Kickstartdoes not honor the package statements preceded by the minus'-'symbol as expected.- This is
%packagessection fromkickstart:
%packages
@base
-open-vm-tools-desktop
-open-vm-tools
-open-vm-tools*
%end
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- vmware
- kickstart
- anaconda
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