genhdlist?

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "PR" == Philip Rowlands <phr at doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:

PR> You could fetch the Fedora Core RPMs for yum, which would almost
PR> certainly just drop in.

The latest ones have sqlite dependencies which might be problematic.

I recommend grabbing the 2.2.x release from
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml and building a custom
package with your custom repos already set up in /etc/yum.repos.d.
The spec makes it pretty easy to add those.

PR> genhdlist builds the file which maps between package names and
PR> files.

It is important to note that the hdlist is used only by the installer.
It is completely immaterial to yum which has its own repository
metadata format (currently generated by createrepo).  I have a feeling
that the hdlist will go away if the installer gains the ability to
install from yum repositories in FC5.

On x86 systems you can generally get away with just running genhdlist
when you update or add a package.  On x86_64 you run a significant
chance of breaking your installs if you don't also run pkgorder.  (If
the i686 glibc installs after the x86_64 one, stuff can break.)

I run it like this:

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora XXX
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder XXX i386 Fedora > pkgorder
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora --fileorder pkgorder XXX

replacing XXX by the full patch to the top level of your install tree
(the one that contains the Fedora directory).  You can probably delete
"--productpath" and "Fedora" on RHEL.

 - J<