Rajagopal Swaminathan
2013-Sep-14 04:16 UTC
[CentOS] Difficulty building custom Install CD
Greetings, I am trying to follos the procedure as outlined in: http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1 I am using Cendos minimal ISO to build a custom installer and Live CD (with addition of NTP, samba and some custom application with dependencies) According to the above link: "In RHEL/CentOS 6, this file is no longer called just "comps.xml"; instead, it has some horrendous hex string for a name. In CentOS 6.2, it is named bedb7dc8fdf920deffbdc5a70ea0d6d77255656556184f5e996e8a88a63d145c-c6-x86_64-comps.xml.gz. " Indeed horrendeous file. I am not able find the *comps.xml. What should I do and where would I find it. Else what is the method for pacakaging (Centos 6.4 minimal + some custom app rpms + custom configs) ? -- Regards, Rajagopal
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:> Greetings, > > I am trying to follos the procedure as outlined in: > > > http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1 > > I am using Cendos minimal ISO to build a custom installer and Live CD > (with addition of NTP, samba and some custom application with > dependencies) > > > According to the above link: > "In RHEL/CentOS 6, this file is no longer called just "comps.xml"; > instead, it has some horrendous hex string for a name. In CentOS 6.2, > it is named > bedb7dc8fdf920deffbdc5a70ea0d6d77255656556184f5e996e8a88a63d145c-c6-x86_64-comps.xml.gz. > " >the first page of that link says: Look in the file ~kickstart_build/comps.xml (which you copied from repodata/comps.xml on disc 1 of the CentOS distribution).> > Indeed horrendeous file. > > I am not able find the *comps.xml. > > What should I do and where would I find it. > >[root at nemesis centos]# mount -o loop CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso /mnt [root at nemesis centos]# ls /mnt/repodata/ 08faa81a545bb1157be476ada0524206d137084f50d285b9f7f875b3b02839df-other.sqlite.bz2 2727fcb43fbe4c1a3588992af8c19e4d97167aee2f6088959221fc285cab6f72-c6-x86_64-comps.xml <<< 6ce81da964e0028da004fd4deb817a89d4db450a3d0af4a826d7c6abad0168a9-other.xml.gz cb96727ddc89e5e1786456c6f2c08a81418296f949470311ee9c2ebb1a6ccc7d-c6-x86_64-comps.xml.gz d221c3d1c22cc4e4c4dafc40aa2bf3d353d67882a0d98f7f88ad8215f2d48818-filelists.sqlite.bz2 df5b1510036696c30d69d32d0609c5bfb6f121083ff97bf98a7540c644f6e4ac-primary.sqlite.bz2 f050fc8b41b566153c15bb1d287e6c5a016809415bfce9ddc3540176ce8afdaf-filelists.xml.gz f6f4019e1d7ff186c247c58d394a5faaab51e9ca1fb9c174c94a204588536d14-primary.xml.gz repomd.xml TRANS.TBL> Else what is the method for pacakaging (Centos 6.4 minimal + some > custom app rpms + custom configs) ? > > -- > Regards, > > Rajagopal > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.