Re: simple buildinstall question

[Matilainen Panu <panu matilainen nokia com>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Matilainen Panu wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   now that i'm going to figure out how buildinstall works, one
> really
> > > trivial question -- what's it for?  i've already figured out what
> > > splitdistro is all about, but what's the purpose of buildinstall,
> > > in ten words or less?  thanks.  this is getting more complicated by
> > > the minute.
> > 
> > Buildinstall builds the installer :) You point it to the distro's RPM
> > directory and from the various packages in there (anaconda, X,
> > kernel-BOOT...) it creates all the disk and *std.img images the
> installer 
> > uses.
> 
> i suspected as much, as i've been poking around in the code, amusing
> myself.  this leads to another question -- even if i change the set
> of RPMS under RedHat/RPMS, and come up with an updated comps file,
> and run "genhdlist" to rebuild the hdlist and hdlist2 files, is it
> necessary to run buildinstall to rebuild the .img files?
> 
> it would seem that the .img files under RedHat/base are built solely
> to support the install process.  as long as you're not changing
> anything related to the install itself, is there any reason not
> to stick with the original .img files that are already there?

That's right - all the buildinstall generated stuff is install-time only,
with the exception of rescue.img. So only if you want to change anaconda,
the boot-time kernel, XFree version used in the install or so you need to 
run it. 

	- Panu -