Figuring package class

[Philip Prindeville]

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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