Dan Trainor wrote:
> Hello, all -
>
> I have a few questions here regarding the use of genhdlist and pkgorder.
> My understanding is that something such as the following must be run,
> after editing comps.xml to suit one's needs:
>
> ...edit comps.xml...
> ...if any RPMs are included in comps.xml, throw 'em in RedHat/RPMS...
>
> pkgorder /tmp/rhel-1 i386 CentOS|tee /tmp/rhel-1/pkgorder.txt
>
> genhdlist --withnumbers --fileorder /tmp/rhel-1/pkgorder.txt --hdlist
> /tmp/rhel-1/RedHat/base/hdlist /tmp/rhel-1/
>
>
> Now, I almost had it working up until the point where I ran genhdlist a
> second time. I get a Python error:
>
> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'order'
>
> I know nothing of python, I can only imagine that this has something to
> do with the order in which my pkgorder.txt file was created.
>
> So then I got to thinking. Shouldn't genhdlist create the
> base/hdlist{2} files from scratch? I removed my existing base/hdlist{2}
> files, and genhdlist crapped out on me. I'm not sure why.
>
> If anyone wouldn't mind giving me some pointers, once again, I would be
> very appreciative.
>
> Thanks!
> -dant
>
Ah, one quick follow-up here;
When the base/hdlist{2} files are removed, and I attempt to run
pkgorder, I am presented with the following error:
Failed to read header list /tmp/rhel-1/RedHat/base/hdlist
...which makes me conclude that for some reason the base/hdlist{2} files
must exist already in order to run genhdlist. So I guess I'm not
understanding something here since I had assumed that genhdlist creates
the base/hdlist{2} files from scratch.
Thanks again!
-dant
