On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Matilainen Panu wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote: > > > > > now that i'm going to figure out how buildinstall works, one really > > trivial question -- what's it for? i've already figured out what > > splitdistro is all about, but what's the purpose of buildinstall, > > in ten words or less? thanks. this is getting more complicated by > > the minute. > > Buildinstall builds the installer :) You point it to the distro's RPM > directory and from the various packages in there (anaconda, X, > kernel-BOOT...) it creates all the disk and *std.img images the installer > uses. i suspected as much, as i've been poking around in the code, amusing myself. this leads to another question -- even if i change the set of RPMS under RedHat/RPMS, and come up with an updated comps file, and run "genhdlist" to rebuild the hdlist and hdlist2 files, is it necessary to run buildinstall to rebuild the .img files? it would seem that the .img files under RedHat/base are built solely to support the install process. as long as you're not changing anything related to the install itself, is there any reason not to stick with the original .img files that are already there? rday
