Figuring package class

Neerad Niksun neeradm at in.niksun.com
Mon May 29 20:06:02 UTC 2006


comps.xml helps you create your own group.
RHEL 4.0 has lots of rpms not present in comps.xml and yet those get
installed.

This is simply done through hdlist. If a package is listed in hdlist (and
not there in any section of comps.xml) it gets installed.

Neerad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Prindeville" <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com>
To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:35 AM
Subject: Figuring package class


> Hi.
>
> I was trying to come up with a ks.cfg that excluded certain
> packages but included others that weren't there by default
> in the package class...  for instance, sendmail-cf and -wpa_supplicant,
> but I can't tell which class they go into (@base-x???).
>
> How do you tell?  All of this information must be in the .xml.gz
> files in repodata/ directory...  But I can't figure out how to
> interpret it.
>
> Someone care to set me straight?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
>
>




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