Guide to comps.xml and friends

[dan]

Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, dan wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yeap, that's what I'm looking for.  I'm trying to beat RHEL and CentOS
>>into a purposeful beast that suits our associaton's needs, as well as
>>implementing some of our homegrown software.  It's my goal to remove
>>every single item that is not completely essential to doing a short
>>list of very specific tasks.
> 
> 
> It's sometimes easier, unless you really need to make use of all the
> different packaging groups that comps.xml provides, to add/remove from
> within the kickstart file, e.g.
> 
> %packages --resolvedeps
> @ Base
> @ Core
> @ Printing
> -glibc-devel
> -pam_smb
> nc
> ethereal
> 
> (Nothing precludes building said kickstart file with a script)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
> 

Phil -

Yup, and that's where I've started.  But since @Base and @Core are 
forced includes by default, I want to just modify their included package 
lists, so I don't have to specify anything under %packages.

Thanks
-dant