> Ok, and where does hdlist live? > > I was trying to figure out, for instance, why "apr" gets installed... > but can't find any chaining or dependencies. And it's not named > explictly in comps.xml or any of the other xml.gz files. > hdlist and hdlist2 are in the RedHat/base directory, alongside comps.rpm and comps.xml. If you've added RPMs to your install base and want them to work during installation under anaconda, you'll need to run 'genhdlist'. It's a little complex and a lot annoying, I'm looking forward to the day when anaconda manages packages with YUM. Klaus