> Thanks for the reply, Chip - > > I was thinking, based on what I've read of your posts, "if anyone would > respond to this, it would be Chip". haha. > > Anyway - yes, I'm trying to do the same sort of whing which you had > mentioned. I've got it down pretty well, however, I don't know how to > make my medium include ONLY those packages specified in comps.xml. > > The best I've been able to do is an HTTP boot, and record the packages > downloaded by the installing client, based on Apache's logs. I'll then > take this list of packages and throw them all on one bootable CD, and > corss my fingers. However, there *has* to be a more elegant way of > doing this. take your comps.xml - put it in as the groups file in a yum repo made by createrepo. and yum should be able to mark-for-install and depsolve everything in that group. then you know what pkgs you need. you could make it even easier than that with a little bit of coding. -sv
