Creating completely custom Package and repodata

[Jim Wildman]

why bother?  Just use your kickstart file to install what you want.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Adam Grossman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am completely new to this, so this a totally newbie question.  I have been 
> asked to create a very custom CentOS 6.4 release for internal use.  I have 
> had no problems with creating a kickstart file and customizing it from the 
> options in "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart", and all my 
> %pre scripts have worked great.  The only place i am stuck at is creating a a 
> completely a custom "core" group and other custom groups.  My only attempt so 
> far was to create a custom group by:
>
> yum-groups-manager --merge repodata/<*.comp.xml file>  -n "customgroup" 
> --id=customgroup --description "Custom packages" -c yum.conf 
> --save=repodata/<*.comp.xml file> <package name>
>
> (yum.conf is the repo for repo with the custom rpms) . When i added 
> "customgroup" to the "%packages" section, as getting errors saying that the 
> group can not be found.
>
> before i run "createrepo" and try doing this all from scratch, i was hoping 
> to at least get a custom group working with the existing repodata.
>
> I might have completely missed it, but i can not find any detailed 
> information on how the repodata and the files in there work, and how to setup 
> a completely custom repo on the ISO.  Does anyone know where i can find 
> detailed documentation explaining how this works, or point me to a tutorial 
> on how to do what i am looking to do?  I not only need to get this done, but 
> i also want to understand what it is doing and how it works so i can more 
> self-sufficient and do all of these cleanly and correctly.
>
> thank you,
> atg
>
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