John Summerfield wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Pablo Iranzo G�mez 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?
Er. Windows?
Ok, ok. Not windows, I meant different Linux flavours, say like Debian /
Slackware / etc?
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?
Probably:-) AFAIk C4 repos work with C5.
I don't believe the architecture is important, but the version of
createrepo probably is. createrepo is noarch, so it can be installed
anywhere you like, assuming you have the tools (and on SME I expect
you have)
rpm2cpio <createrepo....rpm | cpip --extract -d
You could use that technique to put createrepo into an area within
your local mirror and so, if needs be, have several different versions
for several different repos.
thanx, this has worked well.
createrepo -g repodata/comps.xml . is that command I used and it works
quite well. Thank you very much :)
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux
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