On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Sanjeev Chhibber wrote: > What is the exact purpose of it? > And why is it needed for the kickstart install? >From what I can gather, it holds all the rpm dependencies of all rpms in the RPMS directory in one convenient database. It saves anaconda, on a kickstart install, from having to trawl through all RPMs, possibly at the other end of a slow network link, to figure out this information. Consequently, it is only necessary to run it when the contents of the rpm directory changes. genhdlist: genhdlist [--withnumbers] [--hdlist <path>] <paths>+ I use it like this :- /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --hdlist /rpms/cd/RedHat/base/hdlist /rpms/cd A google search of genhdlist will come up with plenty of examples of its use. Warning: it changed the format of the files generated between anaconda 7.0 and anaconda 7.1. Cheers, Andy!
