New to Kickstart, trying to add custom packages to DVD Repo.

[Mike Partain]

Excellent Tip!  This worked for me!

My setup i am using MAC OSX and VMWare Fusion for testing purposes.

I have my custom kickstart on the CD and I have modified the isolinux.cfg to append "ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" to the default linux and disabled the prompt.  This kicks off the custom install with my ks.cfg file.

I did a install of RHEL Server to a VM and mounted the RHEL Server ISO.  Once mounted i copied the contents of the DVD to /media/rhel.
Once copied i created an addons directory inside the Server folder (/media/rhel/Server/addons).  I copied isomaster and the supporting xdg-utils rpm to the addons folder.

At this point o ran the command you provided:
> createrepo --update -g repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml .

This generated new files in the repodata folder.  I copied these files and the addons folder to the ISO (using MagicISO on Windows) and saved the ISO.  Back to the VM, i created a new VM and configured it to boot the new custom ISO and once installation is completed i logged in and isomaster is installed.

thank you very much for the excellent support and assistance.




On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:

> Hi
> 
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>> De: "Mike Partain" <turbo2007 at gmail.com>
>> Para: kickstart-list at redhat.com
>> Enviados: Viernes, 18 de Marzo 2011 8:13:11
>> Asunto: New to Kickstart, trying to add custom packages to DVD Repo.
>> Hello all and thanks for taking the time to read my question/post.
>> 
>> I am wondering if it is possible to add a custom made RPM to the DVD
>> repository and install it through the %packages portion on RHEL Server
>> 5.4. I have tried simply copying the files from the CD during the post
>> and had some trouble. In looking at the packages section it seemed
>> that it would be easier to add it to the Server folder and run
>> createrepo /media/cdrom/Server.
> 
> What I do is to put them in another folder just to make it clear what are DVD packages and custom ones (easier to do maintenance).
> 
> And yes, putting packages in server is just createrepo, but that must be executed on a system running rhel 5.x.
> 
> cd /media/crom/Server
> createrepo --update -g repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml
> 
> 
> Regards
> Pablo
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