Thread: Customizing an OS distribution - distro kit?

There have been a few threads related to kit building, so there may be
some overlap here. I'm looking for the best method to specify a list of
RPMs I need installed in addition to the base OS kit (I'm using rhel 5).
I don't want to add these by hand through ngedit because it needs to be
a repeatable installation.

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Ideally, this would be a kit that extends the rhel5 kit to include what
I want. I don't, however, want to create a kit that includes a bunch of
RPMs that are already included within the OS kit itself. Is there a
Kusu mechanism to specify RPMs that need to be installed but are part of
another kit? Is that what a DistroKit component is?

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I also have the need to specify multiple architecture RPMs. Does the
kit mechanism allow specifying i386 RPMs for installation on x86_64
architecture?

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Thanks,

Brock

Hi,

To specify a rpm that is from a distro, you can use DistroPackage() in
the build.kit file.

There's a blog entry about this here:
http://www.osgdc.org/blog/?p=30

There's also a link to a sample build.kit there.

-Liming


Taylor, Brock A wrote:
> There have been a few threads related to kit building, so there may be
> some overlap here. I'm looking for the best method to specify a list of
> RPMs I need installed in addition to the base OS kit (I'm using rhel 5).
> I don't want to add these by hand through ngedit because it needs to be
> a repeatable installation.
>
>
>
> Ideally, this would be a kit that extends the rhel5 kit to include what
> I want. I don't, however, want to create a kit that includes a bunch of
> RPMs that are already included within the OS kit itself. Is there a
> Kusu mechanism to specify RPMs that need to be installed but are part of
> another kit? Is that what a DistroKit component is?
>
>
>
> I also have the need to specify multiple architecture RPMs. Does the
> kit mechanism allow specifying i386 RPMs for installation on x86_64
> architecture?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brock
>
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