Creating completely custom Package and repodata

[Adam Grossman]

The issue i am trying to resolve is creating the custom group.  I can't 
have kickstart install it if it does not even recognize it.  Also, i 
want to understand what is going on beneath scenes so i can have a 
better understanding of the tools i am using, and i am sure i am using 
everything properly.

On 08/05/2014 05:33 PM, Jim Wildman wrote:
> 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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