I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere.
I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated.
Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD?
Thanks!
Ben
On 3/20/07, Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin@birdvet.org wrote:
I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere.
I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated.
Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD?
Thanks!
Ben _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi
I followed this howto to add RPMS to Centos install CD
http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/A_Kickstart_CD_for_sipX_on_CentOS
Tronn
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:26 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere.
I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated.
Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD?
Sounds like a good candidate for a CentOS Wiki page if someone can document a clean way to do this. The sipX kickstart may get you there but is a bit confusing for this purpose. [A related issue is creating a DVD from CD images. There's a blank page on the Wiki but no helpful content.]
A work-around that might be a lot less work would be to just create a CD/DVD (currently about 1.1 GB for i386) containing all the updates - e.g. for the i386 updates, the top level of the DVD should have the contents of the updates/i386 directory: headers repodata RPMS
With k3b one can create this DVD quite easily by selecting "New Data DVD Project", navigating to a previously-downloaded copy (or local mirror) of the updates for the desired arch, dragging the 3 directories to the DVD window, and selecting "Burn".
Can just install from the original DVD then reboot, mount the update DVD and do
# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c4-media update
It would later be possible to mail your friend new DVDs when enough updates, or important enough updates, come out to justify the postage.
Phil
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:26 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere.
I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated.
Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD?
Sounds like a good candidate for a CentOS Wiki page if someone can document a clean way to do this. The sipX kickstart may get you there but is a bit confusing for this purpose. [A related issue is creating a DVD from CD images. There's a blank page on the Wiki but no helpful
Do you mean recreating DVD image from CD images or the other way? If a method where linux with root priviledges (for loopback mounting of the images) is required is OK, I could post my scripts and describe how to use them.
As an application example, I burn installation DVD image for say CentOS or Fedora onto DVD+R (not RW), then add some files (DVD is still bootable and is good for installation); Using the files added I can recreate installation CD images set.
Or I burn DVD with CD images and some extra files, which allow me recreate DVD image.
So this is somewhat a kind of simplistic and specialized (ISO images only) jigdo utility.
Anyone would want that?
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Best regards,
Wojtek
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