[lug] kickstart and group files

[chutchin at geekboi.org]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:28 -0600, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
>I'm trying to add stuff to my RPM repository for an F8 kickstart, and I am
>thrashing.  I've read and Googled, and tried lots of experiments, but I'm
>failing.
>
>Here's my current sticking point:
>
>I've added a new group to the comps file (Fedora-8-comps.xml), called
>aztek-additional and used createrepo -g to rebuild the metadata.  That works.
>
>If I change the name to "aztek-apps", and then rebuild the metadata again, the
>kickstart chokes, saying that the group file is bad.  Change it back and
>rebuild the metadata?  It's fine again.  It's clearly seeing my change.
>
>The name's cached somewhere, but I can't find it.
>
>I've tried blowing away the metadata (Packages/repodata) and starting from
>scratch.  I've tried "aztek-5ki" instead of "aztek-apps."  Same failure.
>
>Mind you, this is even when I don't *use* the package in the kickstart.cfg file
>-- it's choking before that.
>
>"Use dpkg or another distro" isn't an option.
>
>"Use 'aztek-additional' " is an option, but there's other stuff that's not
>working.  I suspect they all boil down to my not understanding where
>kickstart's looking for all its group and package info.  This is the simplest
>example I have, and I think if I can solve it, there's an "Aha!" in the wings.
>[ Perhaps >an "Aha!  I'm being an idiot!" but still an "Aha!" :-) ]
>
>Any kickstart users out there with constructive advice?


Can you build the metadata afterwards in a post-install script?  At least with
RHEL 3 and 4 the kickstart you can add a %post section to your kickstart file. 
In this section you can point to scripts on an NFS share and then would not
need any changes to your install media.

Charlie