> 1) You could then trim Base and Core down to the minimum that > you want, > and then maybe add 2 other groups (i.e. Base2, Core2) that include the > packages that were taken out of Base and Core. Again, you > would have to > explicitly include these for the regular installs; not sure if that is > possible for you. That's a great idea. Thanks for suggesting it. > 3) I am not sure if this is possible, but you may be able to copy the > comps.xml file that you want in the %pre section. It looks > like the code > searches for the comps.xml file in this order: /tmp/updates/ > 'basetree'/RHupdates/ 'basetree'/RedHat/base/ . So, you could copy the > comps.xml file that you want to /tmp/updates/. I am not sure if this > will work at all...just pulling ideas out of my ... I'll give this a shot and let the list know what I find. If it works, it would probably be what I'm after. > Looking through the code quickly, I did not see a way to specify a > comps.xml file to use though...it looks like the name is hard coded. That's what I was afraid of, but I haven't looked through the source yet.