On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > yes, i'm still keen on understanding this process completely, > and i'm reading the RedHat-CD-HOWTO, which seems a bit confusing. > > if you're interested, i'm looking at > > www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO/include-updates.html > > section 5.3.3.3, "Update the comps.xml file" > > if you read the instructions, it syggests downloading the > comps-8.0.tar.gz tarball, installing comps-extras and doing the > next several instructions. > > however, if i try this without making any changes (which > should work), i get a number of CRITICAL ERRORs. without > getting into that just yet, i'm baffled by the call to the > "getfullcomps.py" utility, which is called with an argument > of "comps.xml". is that a typo? *what* comps.xml file? > there is no comps.xml file in this directory yet, since the > whole purpose of this process is to *build* one. The purpose of getfullcomps.py is not to generate a comps.xml for you but to generate the dependency information at the end of the final comps.xml. You need a "template" comps.xml (comps-milan.xml in the comps tarball) which has all the "this package belongs to this group and is installed by default" stuff listed in it and then you run getfullcomps.py against the template .. which you then append to the final comps.xml. Messy? Oh yes... > > based on this section, it seems clear that the eventual > comps.xml file is generated only toward the end and finally > copied into your build tree. > > so is that argument name an error? and is there somewhere > an official doc on this process? thanks. See http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html -- - Panu -
