> > --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Bob Tanner wrote: > > > > > Where can I find documentation for the anaconda-runtime rpm? > > >=20 > > > In particular, what do all the files do /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime. > > > > The best documentation is to just look at the files and see > what they > > do. A lot of them are scripts called by other scripts in > there. The > > most important two are buildinstall which takes an RPM tree > and builds > > all the anaconda boot and stage2 images for it, as well as > doing stuff > > like genhdlist. The other is splitdistro which splits a big install > > root into two directory trees, one for each disc, for > burning purposes. > > > Not very practical for those without a good understanding of C, Python > *AND* bash. > > Frankly, I think if some Red Hatter put together some basic > documentation, > the effort would be repaid the next time a new Red Hatter had > to learn the > system. > > > I've looked at the scripts etc (did so before joining this > list). Python's > a big mystery to me, I have hardly any idea what's going on. > > My C is a little better, but my examination of genhdlist has > revealed a bug > (which I found before looking at the code) but next to no > light on what its > argments mean. I especially have not been able to discover > what format the > file argument to --fileorder is (other than strings). > > As for comments, the only multiline comments in the entire program are > where there's a group of lines commented out. > > > > The bug? > [summer@numbat summer]$ /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --help > genhdlist: bad argument --help: unknown option > [summer@numbat summer]$ > > > There's a usage() function in the program, it's called in at > least one place: > [summer@numbat summer]$ /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist > --fileorder fred > genhdlist: genhdlist [--withnumbers] > [--fileorder <path>] [--hdlist <path>] <paths>+ > [summer@numbat summer]$ > > > Not that it actually tells me how to feed it. > > I've gone through a good deal of anaconda-list and > kickstart-list and so > far have no clues on how to run genhdlist or splitdistro. > buildinstall I > can manage, at least in the simple case. > > > > -- > Cheers > John Summerfield > > Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ > > Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, > for my disposition. This is how I use those programs: Copy both CDs to an i386 directory, and the source CDs to SRPMS. For this explanation I will use /redhat/rh72/i386 and /redhat/rh72/SRPMS. If you want to do the very minimum, create these directories: # mkdir -p /redhat/rh72/i386/RedHat/RPMS # mkdir -p /redhat/rh72/i386/RedHat/base # mkdir -p /redhat/rh72/SRPMS/SRPMS and copy these files on the CDs to the new directories: # cd /mnt/cdrom # cp COPYING RPM-GPG-KEY README autorun /redhat/rh72/i386 # cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS # cp *.rpm /redhat/rh72/i386/RedHat/RPMS (for each CD) # cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/base # cp comps /redhat/rh72/i386/RedHat/base {optional} Get the source CDs and copy them over as well: # cd /mnt/cdrom/SRPMS/SRPMS # cp *.rpm /redhat/rh72/SRPMS/SRPMS (for each CD) Install anaconda & anaconda-runtime, and I find it easier to copy the anaconda-runtime files to the /redhat directory: # rpm -ivh /rh72/i386/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-* # cp -a /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/* /redhat To change the bootdisks or other things on the CD that you want installed, change anaconda from the src.rpm, rebuild it, and put the new anaconda* packages into the /redhat/rh72/i386/RedHat/RPMS directory, and they will be used to build the new CDs. Run genhdlist before _and_ after splitdistro. # cd /redhat # ./genhdlist --withnumbers /redhat/rh72/i386 You must specify the full path, or you will get a 'no such file or directory' error. Run pkgorder to get the order that the packages will be installed. # PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda ./pkgorder rh72/i386 i386 > pkgfile Run buildinstall which creates the boot images, hdstg1.img, stage2.img, netstg1.img, etc. # ./buildinstall --pkgorder pkgfile --version 7.2 rh72/i386 I found a bug in splitdistro, where it won't move the /preview directory to disc2, thus disc1 is too large. You can either move that directory manually (mv rh72/i386-disc1/preview rh72/i386-disc2), or edit splitdistro like this: [around line 169] moveFiles("%s/RedHat/RPMS" % disc1Dir, "%s/RedHat/RPMS" % disc2Dir, disc2pkgs); +# Move /preview to disc2 +os.rename("%s/preview" % disc1Dir, + "%s/preview" % disc2Dir); # ./splitdistro --fileorder pkgfile rh72/ i386 # ./genhdlist --withnumbers /redhat/rh72/i386-disc1 /redhat/rh72/i386-disc2 Then you can run mkisofs to create the CDs. Forrest
