On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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...
sorry, that still doesn't answer my question. if you go to the
web page i list above, section 5.3.3.3, one of the commands run
is "getfullcomps.py":
$ /usr/share/comps-extras/getfullcomps.py comps.xml \
/abs-path-to-toplevel-dir i386 >> comps-tmp.xml
note the reference to the file "comps.xml" in the first line.
*which* comps.xml file? what does this argument represent?
the whole purpose of this section of code is to generate
an *eventual* comps.xml file, so how can it refer to an
*existing* file as part of the process?
what does that argument mean? or is it a typo? am i making
more sense now? the rest of it i can deal with.
rday
