--ignoremissing and other %package line controls.

C. Petro petro at cpetro.us
Thu Jun 14 21:50:43 UTC 2018


Oh, and also does anyone know a good way to check to make sure that the
contents of your isolinux/Package directory contains all the depedencies
that your %packages section is asking for?

The script I found...missed 20 or 30 things.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:17 AM, C. Petro <petro at cpetro.us> wrote:

> I've been trying to build a custom RHEL7 ISO for installing secure(ish)
> servers in a DMZ.
>
> Basically I am trying to minimize the packages installed. I had a working
> set based on RHEL 7.2, and tried to just copy that package list and use
> RHEL7.5. Of course, dependencies have changed.
>
> So I tried to add:
>
> %packages --ignoremissing
>
> Which did not work--it still attempts to access a non-local repo and
> install additional packages--10 tries at 30 seconds each!
>
> So I set:
> %packages --ignoremissing --retries=2 --timeout=2
>
> And got no behavior change.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
>
> Regards,
> Petro.
> :wq
>
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