Re: an overview of buildinstall

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 16:50, rpjday wrote:
> On 27 Nov 2001, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> > mk-images itself creates the installer images under base (with help from
> > upd-instroot)
> 
> ok, here's one more question that will fill in a large part of the
> picture for me.
> 
> if i wanted to, i could rewrite the anaconda RPM to make major changes
> in the install process, such as adding a whole new screen, adding
> another install class, etc.  clearly, this would involve changing
> some of the python code in that RPM.
> 
> when i run "buildinstall", which eventually runs "mk-images", does
> this build the installer images based on the contents of the
> anaconda RPM that it finds in the RPMS/ directory?  
> 
> in other words, could i make mods to the anaconda RPM, rebundle it
> back into RPM form, and have buildinstall create the images based
> on my changes?

Exactly.  Preferably making your changes to the anaconda package in the
form of a patch in the src.rpm and rebuilding with a different release
tag.  See
ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/realmkit/7.2/SRPMS/RealmKit/anaconda-7.2-7ncsu.src.rpm
for a simple example of this.

Cheers,

Jeremy