Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
Rudi,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Yes, I just copied cd.iso to a folder and removed a few things I didn't
want. Later on I'm going to add a few rpm's which I want to the
kickstart to copy to the installed system.
I currently have all the files on a SME 7.3 server (which runs on a
very modified version of CentOS 4.6) so I don't know if the createrepo
command will work, or actually do what it's supposed todo.
You'll need :) createrepo updates files in repodata/ that are used
during installation.
Would this still work if the only other machine I have to my disposal to
setup the ISO (where I'm currently creating the kickstart file & ISO
file) is on a different OS & architecture?
For example, I'm writing & testing a kickstart for CentOS 5.1 x64, and I
only have 1 64bit PC at this stage. But our LAN server, as I said, runs
on SME 7.3, which is CentOS 4.6 i386 - will this make any difference?
Is there any way of sorting this out manually? I'm happy to edit the
files for the CD
What I would do personally, if I were at your situation would be
to use reposync (in yum-utils) to take care of syncing needed packages,
for example:
I would need joe, mc, screen, ssh, so I would ask reposync to sync
from a CentOS mirror those packages (and reposync will also download all
needed dependencies). In order to have a more real setup, I will install a
system with just:
%packages --nobase to have the minimal files that @Core needs,
then will rpm -qa to know which ones are needed and add them to my
personal preference list in order to reposync to get the rest.
At the end, reposync will have setup for me a copy of that repo
with just what I need and it's dependencies and run createrepo on them...
(That's what cobbler does ;) )
Regards
Pablo
Well, this is the thing. I already use "%packages --nobase " in my
kickstart file, which worked fine previously, without wanting to install
this particular rpm, but now it's looking for it on CD2. odd
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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