CentOS - Apr 2020 - CentOS 8 installation

Are there still a lot of rough edges in this area? There are some things I
simply can't get to work.

This is about kickstart installations. Finding the right stuff for the %packages
sections is lucky dip at best. The RHEL manual points to the comps file, really?
This file isn't meant to be parsed by humans.

Specifying an environment - the example "Infrastructure Server"
doesn't exist. Is this one of the areas where CentOS deviates from RHEL? I
did find server-product-environment, custom-environment, minimal-environment.

I followed the link in the documentation to the kickstart file generator. The
generated file isn't usable as is, specifically the %packages section -
anaconda says there is no group dns-server, for instance. Which dnf later
confirms. The group list in dnf also seems to be a lot shorter than it used to
be under 7?

Specifying %packages --multilib, this is where it breaks down completely. For
the chosen group/package mix, which works perfectly without multilib, anaconda
complains about conflicts for files provided by both the i686 and the x86_64
version of, in this case, gdb-headless and sssd-common. Attempting to fix this
with

-gdb-headless.i686
-sssd-common.i686

fails, these lines are being ignored. Excluding gdb-headless altogether fails
also because the main gdb package pulls it in.

Honestly, I'm not sure where to go from here.

Here's another interesting observation.

For previous versions, I was able to reduce the size of the updates mirror
significantly by running repomange -o and deleting the resulting files on next
sync. With the AppStream repo, this no longer works, the anaconda installer will
complain that at least one package has an incorrect checksum, and the only way
to remove this error is to restore the complete package set, multiple versions
and all. I've not been able to narrow it down more.

Am 08.05.20 um 13:53 schrieb isdtor:
> Here's another interesting observation.
> 
> For previous versions, I was able to reduce the size of the updates mirror
significantly by running repomange -o and deleting the resulting files on next
sync. With the AppStream repo, this no longer works, the anaconda installer will
complain that at least one package has an incorrect checksum, and the only way
to remove this error is to restore the complete package set, multiple versions
and all. I've not been able to narrow it down more.
> 
How does the observation looks like, when all
kickstart/ sub directories are untouched?

--
Leon