On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: > How do you make it so kickstart/install doesn't install RPMs listed in > the "comps" file simply by alphabetic order? We have our own company > specific packages that we've prefixed with "bcf" that we add to the > "@ Base" section. However, regardless of where we put them in the > "@ Base" section because they start with "b" they load earlier than most > packages, some of which they depend on. We've taken to renaming them > "zbcf" (eg: zbcf-commoncron-1.1-1.i386.rpm), but that's ugly. Is there a > better way? Use package prerequisites (i.e. Prereq: bash) > where "! somepackage" means "exclude the package `somepackage'" (ie: > delete it from the list of packages selected). This would also help when > you want to exclude a package from the "@ Base", which sometimes you do > (for instance there is a class of systems that we create where we do not > want to put on the C compiler for security reasons). Bleah -- sounds like a pain. Generating an explicit list of packages isn't *that* hard. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
