Rather than simply add a "me too", might I suggest posting the script
to the list? I think
this particular task (a 1 CD installation) Is of interest to quite a
number of folks.
Also am I taking you description of what you did to mean that you've got
a "1 CD" distro becuase all of the packages you request in your
kickstart.cfg happen to be on the
first CD?
Keith
jam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi
may I too have a copy of the script please
James
I created a single CD RH 8.0 CD, but I did it a little different:
* Used only the BASE and CORE rpms (took out the SRPMs as well)
* Updated with updated RPMs (errata)
* I did not modify the comps.xml file, since I am using Kickstart, and
you can explicitly list the groups that you want. Since I only have
BASE/CORE rpms, I can just list those (although, I left them out since
they install by default).
* Ran genhdlist (I did not do a buildinstall or splitdistro at all)
This worked for me, since I was using Kickstart. This might not work for
you if you were building a general 1 CD RH install.
I also wrote a script that reads the comps.xml file, and generates a
list of RPMs for BASE and CORE (you can modify it to use other groups as
well). If this would be helpful to you (or anyone else), I can send it
to you. I also wrote a script that takes that list, and removes all RPMs
not on that list from a directory.
HTH,
--brett
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:26, Skahan, Vince wrote:
Can anybody provide a comps.xml file and a matching
listing of the RPMS directory for a one-cd rh8-based
distribution (ie, a mini-server)that actually builds ?
I'm trying to build up a mini rh8 from the base+core
stated to be the minimum, but it appears that buildinstall
needs 'lots' more rpms than the working minimal o/s does
to be included in comps.xml and the RPMS tree to successfully
build a pkgorder.txt file and an image.
It's proving maddeningly difficult to figure out what
stuff buildinstall needs in addition to the far smaller
set of stuff that the o/s actually needs to run.
I'm following the steps in the 'Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO'
as follows:
- copied rh8.0 cd-1 to /rh80/i386
- added in cd-2 and cd-3 rpms to get'em all
- edited splitdistro a little per the HOWTO to not
worry about the SRPMS
- ran genhdlist, buildinstall, splitdistro etc.
and it seemed to rebuild vanilla 8.0 ok
- then I tried to strip down the RPMS directory
removing unneeded stuff, but buildinstall
blows up trying to build the pkgorder.txt file.
Any ideas ?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:27 AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Some documentation on the new XML comps file
In an effort to try to answer some of the questions before they get
asked, I've put up a first go at some documentation on the new XML comps
file format at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html. It should
be a complete reference to all of the things which are recognized for
the file as well as information on how to generate the package lists
with dependencies and a simple little python script which uses some
attributes of the file.
I also went ahead and put up the master comps-milan.xml.in file plus the
po files which are used in generating the final comps.xml. It's a bit
easier to edit the .in file since it doesn't have the translations
merged in which makes it shorter and easier to follow. Tarball is at
http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps-8.0.tar.gz
If anyone has any questions or clarifications, feel free to ask here and
I'll try to pay enough attention to answer them and update the
documentation accordingly. We're also going to try to get some other
things up as we get the time to sit down and work on them.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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