[Fedora-livecd-list] fc7 revisor re-spinned install CD failed to install 3rd party packages

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

jie sun wrote:
> Hi,
>    I did not change comps but I used kickstart file to include my rpms 
> and all my packages gets included on the CD. The problem is after 
> installation with the CD, non of my packages get installed. Seems only 
> fedora packages gets installed.
> 

Packages that are not selected during the installation dialog are not 
going to be installed, no matter if they are available on the media you 
are installing from, or not.

You can select packages using the Package Selection dialog anaconda has 
in both text and graphical install, where it finds the categories and 
groups it displays in a file called comps.xml. This comps.xml is 
included with every third party repository available to you on the net, 
but is often lacking in private repositories (you know, those with all 
kinds of custom RPMs). It is this comps.xml file though you will need to 
create yourself and add to the repository, or edit an existing comps 
file to include the packages you add to the mix. Revisor has a 
--revisor-comps and includes stock Fedora comps files in the 
revisor-comps sub-package, just for that particular reason. If you edit 
one of those, and specify --revisor-comps /path/to/edited/comps, Revisor 
will include that comps file (instead of the aggregated form of all 
comps files available from all repositories specified). Mind that 
although it might prove very useful, it might as well as break things -a 
faulty comps might not only cause the compose to fail, but will 
definitely cause the installation to fail.

Or, you choose (select to install) the packages using a kickstart file 
during the installation (something different from using the kickstart 
file with Revisor during the compose of the media). Then, anaconda (the 
installation program) will select the packages you specify in the 
kickstart for installation (what you have done until now is tell Revisor 
to include the packages for the compose), all that without regards to 
any comps.xml file.

Now, you can include such a kickstart on the media, and as such you 
seamlessly, secretly, pre-select packages while allowing the user to 
interactively select/deselect packages in anaconda's package selection 
dialog.

Create/modify a kickstart such as the one you have now, and make it say:

"interactive"

You would want as few as possible other settings if you want it to be as 
seamless as possible, but you can provide other answers to anaconda's 
questions as well (root password, timezone, language, etc).

Then, when you have that kickstart file, you create installation media 
specifying the following options (or click the appropriate check-boxes 
in the GUI):

--kickstart /path/to/kickstart

--kickstart-include
    which includes the kickstart file on the CD, DVD, or in the tree
--kickstart-default
    which sets the bootloader menu entries to use the kickstart file
    during installation

I hope this helps,

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip


> Regards,
> Jie
> 
> */Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     jie sun wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > I tried to re-spin fc7 with revisor and add some 3rd party
>     packages. I
>      > run revisor successfully with new repo and burnt the iso file to
>     a CD. I
>      > can see the 3rd party packages are on the CD package list. But after
>      > install with the CD, non of the 3rd party packages gets
>     installed. Only
>      > fedora existing packages gets installed.
>      >
>      > Did I missed something while running revisor? Does anybody know how
>      > to install 3rd party packages with revisor?
>      >
> 
>     Did you see the third party packages appear in the Package Selection
>     dialog in the graphical installation? The third party repository would
>     need a comps ("Groups" file) to enable anaconda to display the groups
>     and packages in the package selection dialog. If not, you are not able
>     to select them in any other way then using a kickstart (sample):
> 
>     interactive
> 
>     %packages
>     some-third-party-repo-package
>     %end
> 
>     This will select the package, but will still enable you to use the
>     package selection dialog to select other packages as well.
> 
>     Kind regards,
> 
>     Jeroen van Meeuwen
>     -kanarip
> 
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