Avery Fay wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:02 -0700, Dan Trainor wrote: > >>VC1 immediately drops to "install exited abnormally" after comps.rpm is >>retrieved from the HTTP server. VC3 is a little less than helpful by >>saying "WARNING: not all packages in hdlist had order tag". I'm not >>quite sure what this means, however, I'm researching it. > > > What version of RH are you basing your install off of? I never had to > touch comps.rpm only comps.xml. > > >>How am I supposed to rebuild comps.rpm? I'm going to rip it apart and >>take a look, but I'll also wait for your response in the meantime, if >>you've got any ideas. > > > After changes to comps.xml and deleting RPMS/adding RPMS, here's what I > do: > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist <path to cd hierarchy> > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder <path to cd hierarchy> i386 > \ > pkgorder.txt > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers \ > --fileorder=pkgorder.txt <path to cd hierarchy> > > Yeah, you have to run genhdlist twice. No idea why, but it's required. > Also, obviously <path to cd hierarchy> is just the path to the RH > install hierarchy if you are doing a network install (this path is the > one with the RedHat directory in it). > Thanks for the response, Avery - I think the problem is, I'm actually editing comps.xml and adding my own packages to @base. I think this conflicts with comps.rpm, which does not have my packages listed in it's own comps.xml. However, since Anaconda is a bit less than friendly with it's debugging information, I cannot verify this as a fact. Thanks -dant
