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Description: There is an open engineering bug in system-config-kickstart tool for RHEL 7 and RHEL 7.1, which breaks package selection in the tool:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272068

This is a mess, because one of the objectives of RH134 Chapter 1 "Automating Installation with Kickstart", section "Deploying a New Virtual System with Kickstart" is to create a kickstart file with system-config-kickstart. This apparently can't be done solely with this tool in RHEL 7.

The hands-on exercise itself chooses to bypass the tool and have students hand-edit /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. It's not clear if this is because the tool is broken or for some other reason. In any case, the teaching objective should probably be focused around edits to /root/anaconda-ks.cfg rather than s-c-k as long as s-c-k is not usable.

Flagging at Critical because the objective doesn't line up with what's possible in reality.