Re: Creating completely custom Package and repodata

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The issue i am trying to resolve is creating the custom group. I can't have kickstart install it if it does not even recognize it. Also, i want to understand what is going on beneath scenes so i can have a better understanding of the tools i am using, and i am sure i am using everything properly.

On 08/05/2014 05:33 PM, Jim Wildman wrote:
why bother?  Just use your kickstart file to install what you want.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, 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.

thank you,
atg

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