> 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 ... It looks like this will work. Now I just need to find some way of grabbing the correct comps.xml file over the network. It appears that wget, ftp, etc. is not available in %pre. Any suggestions on how to grab a file over the network? Thanks. Sorry for all the newbie questions, but I can't find the answers in the archives. Eric.