[CentOS] Difficulty building custom Install CD

Sat Sep 14 12:07:11 UTC 2013
zGreenfelder <zgreenfelder at gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <
raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to follos the procedure as outlined in:
>
>
> http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1
>
> I am using Cendos minimal ISO to build a custom installer and Live CD
> (with addition of NTP, samba and some custom application with
> dependencies)
>
>
> According to the above link:
> "In RHEL/CentOS 6, this file is no longer called just "comps.xml";
> instead, it has some horrendous hex string for a name.  In CentOS 6.2,
> it is named
> bedb7dc8fdf920deffbdc5a70ea0d6d77255656556184f5e996e8a88a63d145c-c6-x86_64-comps.xml.gz.
> "
>

the first page of that link says:

Look in the file ~kickstart_build/comps.xml (which you copied from
repodata/comps.xml on disc 1 of the CentOS distribution).


>
> Indeed horrendeous file.
>
> I am not able find the *comps.xml.
>
> What should I do and where would I find it.
>
>
[root at nemesis centos]# mount -o loop CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso  /mnt
[root at nemesis centos]# ls /mnt/repodata/
08faa81a545bb1157be476ada0524206d137084f50d285b9f7f875b3b02839df-other.sqlite.bz2
2727fcb43fbe4c1a3588992af8c19e4d97167aee2f6088959221fc285cab6f72-c6-x86_64-comps.xml
  <<<
6ce81da964e0028da004fd4deb817a89d4db450a3d0af4a826d7c6abad0168a9-other.xml.gz
cb96727ddc89e5e1786456c6f2c08a81418296f949470311ee9c2ebb1a6ccc7d-c6-x86_64-comps.xml.gz
d221c3d1c22cc4e4c4dafc40aa2bf3d353d67882a0d98f7f88ad8215f2d48818-filelists.sqlite.bz2
df5b1510036696c30d69d32d0609c5bfb6f121083ff97bf98a7540c644f6e4ac-primary.sqlite.bz2
f050fc8b41b566153c15bb1d287e6c5a016809415bfce9ddc3540176ce8afdaf-filelists.xml.gz
f6f4019e1d7ff186c247c58d394a5faaab51e9ca1fb9c174c94a204588536d14-primary.xml.gz
repomd.xml
TRANS.TBL



> Else what is the method for pacakaging  (Centos 6.4 minimal + some
> custom app rpms + custom configs) ?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rajagopal
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