On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, James Wigdahl wrote: >* running genhdlist with this command: > >/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath Fedora >$BASE Package order - try this (changing pathnames where appropriate): /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /export/redhat/rhel3 PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder > /tmp/rhel.pkgorder /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist \ --withnumbers \ --fileorder /tmp/pkg.rhel3.order \ /export/redhat/rhel3 The reason it breaks is that anaconda used to do the package-sort for you, which takes time ("Preparing RPM transaction" IIRC). This stage was moved into the genhdlist stage. (By package order I mean that gawk has to go on before sendmail, because it's used in the %post script.) hwdata needs basically nothing in advance, so usually ends up first in the list. Cheers, Phil