Making an updated DVD.

[csm at Lunar-Linux.org]

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Steffan Jacobs spewed into the bitstream:

SJ>Jeremy Hogan wrote:
SJ>
SJ>>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:27, Steffan Jacobs wrote:
SJ>>  
SJ>>
SJ>>>Hi,
SJ>>>
SJ>>>Does anyone know a howto on creating a updated installation DVD (or 
SJ>>>CD's) from the original tree and downloaded update packages. I've been 
SJ>>>looking around on the internet, but I can't seem to find it.
SJ>>>
SJ>>>If there's no howto any other help is welcome as well.
SJ>>>    
SJ>>>
SJ>>
SJ>>Steffan,
SJ>>
SJ>>Here's a script.
SJ>>
SJ>>ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh 
SJ>>
SJ>>--jeremy
SJ>>
SJ>>
SJ>>  
SJ>>
SJ>Hi,
SJ>
SJ>I'm not sure this script is really what I'm looking for. I have already 
SJ>created a DVD from the original ISO's when they came out. Now I want to 
SJ>update that DVD so that it will install the updated packages right away. 
SJ>As I understand I will have to do more than just replace the packages to 
SJ>achieve this. If I copy the DVD's contents to the harddrive and use it 
SJ>as a tree for this script will anaconda be able to find those packages?

If you did what you describe and then use 
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist to update the hdlist I believe you 
will get what you want.

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csm
Lunar Linux Project Lead
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