RE: FC5 package ordering

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d'oh.

thx for the heads up.


On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:17 -0700, Mallasch, Paul wrote:
> 
> Genhdlist will not work for FC5.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaCustomization 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Pattullo
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:04 PM
> To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: re: FC5 package ordering
> 
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:00 -0400, Ian Leonard <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >         The main problem is that one of my rpms (that begins with an
> >         'm') is on disk 2 but is required by the installer when disk 1
> >         is in. 
> 
> Ian,
> 
> 	Are you using 'splittree.py' & 'genhdlist' as part of your CD
> build
> process? As I understand it splittree is required in order to split the
> pacakges into the necessary number of 'CDs', and genhdlist is needed to
> be run after the split again in order to re-generate the list of
> packages for each CD. Both scripts should have come with the
> anaconda-runtime package.
> 
> 	I use the following process to build my images. I'm making CD,
> not DVD
> images though, and much of what I do is dynamic so steps 6-12 are
> probably what might help most:
> 
>  1.) create the kickstart file
>  2.) create the comps.xml file
>  3.) create the .discinfo file
>  4.) create the isolinux.cfg file
>  5.) create the isolinux menu file
> 
>  6.) generate the hdlists (genhdlist)
>  7.) check dependencies (getfullcomps.py)
>  8.) generate the package order file (pkgorder)
>  9.) build the install tree (buildinstall)
>  10.) split the install image (splittree.py)
>  11.) regen the hdlists (genhdlist)
>  12.) build the iso images (mkisofs)
> 
>  13.) implant md5sums in the images (implantisomd5)
>  14.) verify the md5sums (checkisomd5)
> 
> 
> 	Hope the above helps.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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