Small image based on comps.xml alone?

[Dan Trainor]

seth vidal wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply, Chip -
>>
>> I was thinking, based on what I've read of your posts, "if anyone would 
>> respond to this, it would be Chip".  haha.
>>
>> Anyway - yes, I'm trying to do the same sort of whing which you had 
>> mentioned.  I've got it down pretty well, however, I don't know how to 
>> make my medium include ONLY those packages specified in comps.xml.
>>
>> The best I've been able to do is an HTTP boot, and record the packages 
>> downloaded by the installing client, based on Apache's logs.  I'll then 
>> take this list of packages and throw them all on one bootable CD, and 
>> corss my fingers.  However, there *has* to be a more elegant way of 
>> doing this.
> 
> take your comps.xml - put it in as the groups file in a yum repo made by
> createrepo.
> 
> and yum should be able to mark-for-install and depsolve everything in
> that group.
> 
> then you know what pkgs you need.
> 
> you could make it even easier than that with a little bit of coding.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the reply, Seth -

Interesting solution, and I think that solves part of the deal.

Some of those articles that Chip had mentioned are a great reference. 
I'm going to toy around with a few of them right now.

Thanks

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