[Gllug] Fw: Customising a SuSE 9.0 Install Tree

[Roger Whittaker]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Huw Lynes wrote:

> Considering the number of SuSE.uk people that hang out on this list I was
> hoping someone would be able to answer these (possibly trivial) questions.

Only 2 of us I think...
 
> I have a SUSE 9.0 install tree sat on an NFS server so that I can do network
> installs from it. This works fine and I end up with a shiny, workstation using
> XFS. 
> 
> However I have a number of RPMs, some upgraded some brand-new, that I would
> like to put into this install tree so that subsequant installations will use
> them. Under redhat this is a case of addding the RPMs into $BASE/RedHat/RPMS
> and running /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist $BASE and possibly updating
> $BASE/RedHat/base/comps.xml for brand-new RPMs. I'm assuming there is an
> equivalent functionality within yast2 but I can't find the documentation
> anywhere.

You need to do something like this:
/usr/bin/create_package_descr -d /path_to/install_dir/suse/ -l english

This script is part of the autoyast2-utils package.

This creates the setup directory with a subdirectory descr containing 
the files: 
packages  
packages.DU  
packages.en

You need to copy these to the appropriate place on the NFS server.

You may also need to remove the cached copy of this stuff on the machine 
you're installing to.


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