Figuring package class

[Neerad Niksun]

This hdlist live on first CD at <cdrom>/RedHat/base (two files hdlist and
hdlist2)

Answers to the anticipated questions

1) These files are binary files.
2) Generated with the following command.


               /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers --fileorder
<your order file complete path> --productpath RedHat   --hdlist
RedHat/base/hdlist `p wd` (you should be in top directory i.e one above
RedHat)

This will include all the packages present in your RedHat/RPMS/ folder in
the hdlist generated with the above command. (but first you have to build
the order file)

P.S - all this tested on RHEL 4.0

Neerad Mittal.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Prindeville" <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Figuring package class


> Ok, and where does hdlist live?
>
> I was trying to figure out, for instance, why "apr" gets installed...
> but can't find any chaining or dependencies.  And it's not named
> explictly in comps.xml or any of the other xml.gz files.
>
> -Philip
>
>
> Neerad Niksun wrote:
> > comps.xml helps you create your own group.
> > RHEL 4.0 has lots of rpms not present in comps.xml and yet those get
> > installed.
> >
> > This is simply done through hdlist. If a package is listed in hdlist
(and
> > not there in any section of comps.xml) it gets installed.
> >
> > Neerad
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Philip Prindeville" <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com>
> > To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:35 AM
> > Subject: Figuring package class
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I was trying to come up with a ks.cfg that excluded certain
> >> packages but included others that weren't there by default
> >> in the package class...  for instance, sendmail-cf and -wpa_supplicant,
> >> but I can't tell which class they go into (@base-x???).
> >>
> >> How do you tell?  All of this information must be in the .xml.gz
> >> files in repodata/ directory...  But I can't figure out how to
> >> interpret it.
> >>
> >> Someone care to set me straight?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Philip
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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