Re: Adding packages for Fedora Core 3 kickstart install...

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, James Wigdahl wrote:

>* running genhdlist with this command:
>
>/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath Fedora
>$BASE

Package order - try this (changing pathnames where appropriate):

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /export/redhat/rhel3
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder > /tmp/rhel.pkgorder
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist \
        --withnumbers \
        --fileorder /tmp/pkg.rhel3.order \
        /export/redhat/rhel3

The reason it breaks is that anaconda used to do the package-sort for
you, which takes time ("Preparing RPM transaction" IIRC). This stage was
moved into the genhdlist stage. (By package order I mean that gawk
has to go on before sendmail, because it's used in the %post script.)

hwdata needs basically nothing in advance, so usually ends up first in
the list.


Cheers,
Phil