On 08/05/2014 05:16 PM, David Shea wrote:
On 08/05/2014 04:54 PM, Adam Grossman wrote:
Hello,
I am completely new to this, so this a totally newbie question. I
have been asked to create a very custom CentOS 6.4 release for
internal use. I have had no problems with creating a kickstart file
and customizing it from the options in
"http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart";, and all my %pre
scripts have worked great. The only place i am stuck at is creating
a a completely a custom "core" group and other custom groups. My
only attempt so far was to create a custom group by:
yum-groups-manager --merge repodata/<*.comp.xml file> -n
"customgroup" --id=customgroup --description "Custom packages" -c
yum.conf --save=repodata/<*.comp.xml file> <package name>
(yum.conf is the repo for repo with the custom rpms) . When i added
"customgroup" to the "%packages" section, as getting errors saying
that the group can not be found.
before i run "createrepo" and try doing this all from scratch, i was
hoping to at least get a custom group working with the existing
repodata.
I might have completely missed it, but i can not find any detailed
information on how the repodata and the files in there work, and how
to setup a completely custom repo on the ISO. Does anyone know where
i can find detailed documentation explaining how this works, or point
me to a tutorial on how to do what i am looking to do? I not only
need to get this done, but i also want to understand what it is doing
and how it works so i can more self-sufficient and do all of these
cleanly and correctly.
Once you've created the new comp.xml file with yum-group-manager, you
need to regenerate the repodata using createrepo -g <comp.xml file>.
If customgroup if showing up in your new comp.xml with all of the
packages you need, then I think that's all you're missing.
I don't know of any tutorials or documentation on the repodata beyond
the man pages for the various tools, but if you still have trouble you
might be able to get more information on yum's mailing list at
http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum.
Thanks for your response. If those are the steps, I will try running
those steps again on a clean directory tree. Perhaps there was some
leftovers from an earlier attempt, or forgot a switch.
thank you very much,
atg
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