On 21 Nov 2003 13:19:04 +0530 Gautam Pagedar [Gautam] wrote: Gautam> Hello Alain, Hi, [...] Gautam> I have successfully created a custom Redhat 9.0 and tested it...all Gautam> worked fine. great :-) Gautam> Now i want to create a new comps.xml for my custom package installation. Gautam> I have gone through the comps.xml for several time and could not find Gautam> any group for "kernel-development". it's there indeed ... you may have removed it by error. [...] Gautam> secondly i tried using getfullcomps.py for generation a new comps.xml Gautam> but it gives weired results on the prompt. I was referring a document Gautam> for creating comps.xml using getfullcoms.py but i'dont have "the arch" Gautam> parameter to specify and this gives me some warning messages. Gautam> Gautam> i want to know how i can solve this problem?????? Gautam> Gautam> Reference Document-----> http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html good way to start :-) Gautam> Gautam> ---------------------OUTPUT------------------------------------------------- Gautam> $ /usr/share/comps-extras/getfullcomps.py comps.xml /RH9.0 ONE_CD Gautam> Gautam> WARNING: Unable to find package authconfig-gtk. This may be an Gautam> arch-specific package. [...] Gautam> WARNING: Unable to find package efibootmgr. This may be an Gautam> arch-specific package. Gautam> Gautam> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gautam> Gautam> Gautam> How do i solve this architecture problem. when i cannot find this "arch" Gautam> directory on my system. IIRC, getfullcomps is looking for an i386 package, so you'll basicly get this error message if the package is either missing in your RPMS folder or a non i386 package (noarch package for example). Just check for missing packages, the other warnings won't go away anyway :-) -- Alain