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<p class=MsoNormal>I have a question about creating kickstart distributions
from arbitrary base channels in spacewalk. At home, I am running
Spacewalk 0.8 and at work Satellite 5.3 if that is relevant. I can get
the initrd/kernel/etc that are required for PXE from an existing ISO image of,
for example, RHEL 5.5 or CentOS 5.5. However, if I have created a distribution
in the webform that refers to a custom base channel which either (1) contains
additional RPMs such as the various spacewalk client tools or (2) contains
sub-channels which have additional RPMs that I would like my kickstart to be
able to install, I cannot find a tool to amalgamate an appropriate repodata/
directory in the distribution. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> I've seen reference to something called
make-ks-tree.sh, but that appears to require a local filesystem from which to
take the RPMs. I want to be able to slurp the relevent information from
the satellite (spacewalk) server. What is the appropriate way to
accomplish this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Coy Hile<o:p></o:p></p>
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