On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Since Shrike was released to the RedHat Network subscribers today will there be a "comps-9.tar.gz" tar file soon? I am starting down my road of customization and these "comps" files would be very handy right now. Thanks to RedHat for such fine software. -Connie Sieh Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > > i'm basing this on the doc for "Editing comps.xml" at > http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html. > > if you read the section "Generating the full comps > file", the first bullet point refers to a tarball called > "comps-8.0.tar.gz" you can download that *allegedly* > contains the master version of the comps file. ok ... > that tarball contains two relevant files: > > comps-milan.xml.in > comps-milan.xml > > and running "make" generates the second file from the > first one. so i'm assuming that that second file is > considered to be the master comps file. more to the point, > it does not contain package information, which appears to > agree with the hint listed that you should "maintain your > master comps file without this information". so far, so > good. this suggests that, if one needs to start building > a new comps file, this master version represents a good > starting point, right? >
