Re: Small image based on comps.xml alone?

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

> Thanks for the reply, Chip -
> 
> I was thinking, based on what I've read of your posts, "if anyone would 
> respond to this, it would be Chip".  haha.
> 
> Anyway - yes, I'm trying to do the same sort of whing which you had 
> mentioned.  I've got it down pretty well, however, I don't know how to 
> make my medium include ONLY those packages specified in comps.xml.
> 
> The best I've been able to do is an HTTP boot, and record the packages 
> downloaded by the installing client, based on Apache's logs.  I'll then 
> take this list of packages and throw them all on one bootable CD, and 
> corss my fingers.  However, there *has* to be a more elegant way of 
> doing this.

take your comps.xml - put it in as the groups file in a yum repo made by
createrepo.

and yum should be able to mark-for-install and depsolve everything in
that group.

then you know what pkgs you need.

you could make it even easier than that with a little bit of coding.

-sv