Kickstarting a system fails with "file conflicts" error in anaconda.log

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Issue

  • Trying to kickstart a system fails with a "file conflicts" error, despite having "@Everything" and "-@Conflicts" in the kickstart packages section.
  • Kickstarting a system fails with "file conflicts" error in anaconda.log similar to:

    10:31:29 ERROR   : file conflicts: file /usr/bin/ecpg conflicts between attempted installs of postgresql84-devel-8.4.2-5.el5.i386 and postgresql-devel-8.1.18-2.el5_4.1.i386
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U 5

  • Red Hat Network Satellite (all versions)

  • Kickstart Packages section has "@Everything" or "*"

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