FC5 package ordering

[Ian Leonard]

Mallasch, Paul wrote:
> 
> Genhdlist will not work for FC5.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaCustomization 

That's right. The fc_update.sh script runs the various programs as per 
the above link but it seems to reverse the order of buildinstall and 
pkgorder. It does it pkgorder first in order that it can supply the 
result to buildinstall.

Chris, you might want to check out this script. I can't believe it's 
wrong, but I can't work out why it doesn't work for me. I'll try running 
as per the wiki and see what happens.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pattullo
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:04 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: re: FC5 package ordering
> 
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:00 -0400, Ian Leonard <ian at smallworld.cx>
> wrote:
>>         The main problem is that one of my rpms (that begins with an
>>         'm') is on disk 2 but is required by the installer when disk 1
>>         is in. 
> 
> Ian,
> 
> 	Are you using 'splittree.py' & 'genhdlist' as part of your CD
> build
> process? As I understand it splittree is required in order to split the
> pacakges into the necessary number of 'CDs', and genhdlist is needed to
> be run after the split again in order to re-generate the list of
> packages for each CD. Both scripts should have come with the
> anaconda-runtime package.
> 
> 	I use the following process to build my images. I'm making CD,
> not DVD
> images though, and much of what I do is dynamic so steps 6-12 are
> probably what might help most:
> 
>  1.) create the kickstart file
>  2.) create the comps.xml file
>  3.) create the .discinfo file
>  4.) create the isolinux.cfg file
>  5.) create the isolinux menu file
> 
>  6.) generate the hdlists (genhdlist)
>  7.) check dependencies (getfullcomps.py)
>  8.) generate the package order file (pkgorder)
>  9.) build the install tree (buildinstall)
>  10.) split the install image (splittree.py)
>  11.) regen the hdlists (genhdlist)
>  12.) build the iso images (mkisofs)
> 
>  13.) implant md5sums in the images (implantisomd5)
>  14.) verify the md5sums (checkisomd5)
> 
> 
> 	Hope the above helps.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 


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Ian Leonard

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